Top 1200 Rights And Freedoms Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

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

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

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

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.

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

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

Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection.

The Universal Declaration of Human rights is a transformational document that recognizes the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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

What will solve our problems is a specific set of ideas built on bedrock principles that made America the greatest nation to begin with and applying those principles to the unique challenges of this new century. And those principles are not complicated. It begins with a notion that this nation was founded on a powerful spiritual principle, that our rights do not come from government. Our rights do not come from our laws. Our rights do not come from our leaders. Our rights come from God.

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

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

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

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.

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

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

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

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

It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"

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

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.

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.

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

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

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

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

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

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don't get your rights belonging to your group. A group can't force themselves on anybody else. So there should be no affirmative action for any group.

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

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

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those who have been expelled already, which would include the various rights of refugees who came to Israel in the aftermath of WWII, but also those from other countries, and what rights the Palestinians have who have been dispossessed of their lands and homes.

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

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.