Rights Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Rights

Rights Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Rights quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. — Iris Marion Young

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded. — Ruhollah Khomeini

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. — Israel Shahak

Genuine rights don't conflict - they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts. — Yaron Brook

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

... The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise. — Benjamin Graham

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it. — Hod Lipson

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. — Augusto Pinochet

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered. — R. Lee Wrights

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand

Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights — David Maister

I believe the best way to honor the past and future of women's rights is by getting shit done. — Sophia Amoruso

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. — Gelila Bekele

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't. — Hillary Clinton

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. — Alexander Chee

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents. — Warren Farrell

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. — Cecily McMillan

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. — Hillary Clinton

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. — Zoe Lofgren

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers. — Bernie Sanders

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies. — John Prendergast

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights. — Clemence Dane

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. — Roger Brooke Taney

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. — Allan Dare Pearce

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. — Frederick The Great

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. — Robert Mugabe

People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love. — Sasha Cohen

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past. — Malala Yousafzai

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J.M. Coetzee

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long ... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls. — Lewis B. Smedes

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. — Ann Douglas

Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother — Lin Yutang

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. — George B. McClellan

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights. — Inez Milholland

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ... — Jeannette Rankin

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? — Ai Weiwei

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights. — William Ernest Hocking

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant. — Robert Kennedy

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. — Ricky Martin

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights ... — Annie Laurie Gaylor

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass? — Tom Regan

Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time. — Junius Williams

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism. — Malala Yousafzai

People must not vote thinking the evil will lose, but for valuing their existence — M.F. Moonzajer

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. — Chief Joseph

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. — Joichi Ito

Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights. — Yahya Jammeh

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial. — Hillary Clinton

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. — Cesar Chavez

German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans. — Anonymous

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. — J.M. Coetzee

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights. — Joe Clark

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. — Albert Camus

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'. — Flann O'Brien

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. — Clare Boothe Luce

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it. — Evangeline Lilly

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them — James Howe

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. — Anna Lindh

A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; — Anonymous

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others. — Frederick Romilly

There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room. — Stephen Clarke

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned. — Carolyn Maloney

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. — Philip Pullman

Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships? — Nick Hornby

We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. — Ken Mehlman

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable. — L. Ron Hubbard

Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. — Christopher Gerard

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
#Page: 120 — Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. — Alexander Hamilton

If you're willing to give your life to defend my rights, you can have sex with a pie and I will heat it up for you. — Wil Anderson

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things. — Charles James Fox

You can't put civil rights on the ballot. — Jesse Ventura

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. — Mahatma Gandhi

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice. — Peter Tosh

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. — Michael Anti

Winners don't eat wieners. — Ingrid Newkirk

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about. — Faye Wattleton

A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. — Mark Twain

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society. — Christina Baldwin