Top 1200 Unalienable Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

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

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

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

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.

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

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

What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

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

If you can tell me what gun, type of gun, I can possess, then I didn't really get that right to keep and bear arms from God. It was not bequeathed to me; it was not unalienable, right?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human Rights Commissions. It's a bounty system where the prizes are business owner's heads. And so as restaurants go broke, tourists get stabbed. That's human rights in New York. And perhaps America.

Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties of a free people have restrictions upon them, they cease to be freedoms and rights. Instead, the government becomes like a king, bestowing privileges upon the chosen few and servitude upon everyone else.

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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

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