Rights Quotes

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression o...

So the organisation of society on the basis of functions, instead of on the basis of rights, implies...

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform ...

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish ...

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontati...

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicke...

You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as ind...

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a r...

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the governm...

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measur...

Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from wit...

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever rea...

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilizatio...

The thing that drew me to Lafayette as a subject - that he was that rare object of agreement in the ...

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper edu...

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the form...

- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the ...

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.