Top 1200 Declaration Of Human Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

If we set the precedent that a government can use their royal prerogative to take away people's human rights, that is taking us into a very dangerous political environment.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.

Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll grudgingly sign on.

I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

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

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

There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

In both Burma and Laos, we have engaged countries that were once adversaries, and will continue to do so in ways that promote good relations, development, and human rights.

I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.

Victims of crime deserve equal constitutional rights - the same rights as defendants. No more, no less.

The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where the victim has died.

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster. It's like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we'll be going backward.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

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

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!