Rights Quotes

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the ba...

Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights,...

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are autho...

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are noth...

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the i...

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they ...

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should e...

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab disput...

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom o...

You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they...

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the ...

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or...

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the r...

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just gover...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting ...

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this ...

I can hear the roar of women's silence

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they...

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate w...

The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a though...

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions m...

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization w...

Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the ...

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...

So, take the idea of "rights" and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: th...

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand m...

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquill...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquill...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in...

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that ...

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Whe...

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entit...

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first w...

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to b...

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on...

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Ma...

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...

There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a cri...

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls...

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - su...

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as depend...

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights un...

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many t...

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live,...

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important th...

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in ...

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches...

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rende...

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books sa...

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finis...

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing dul...

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaratio...

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I di...

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divi...

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the m...

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on ...

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who...

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their righ...

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in...

Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...