Top 1200 Voting Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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

All the things that Hillary Clinton has changed. OK, she used to be strong at the border. Now everyone could stay. She used to have a crime bill; "sorry about that." She used to be for welfare reform. That was a big mistake. "Libya wasn't my job; it's Barack Obama's." The TPP was the - was the gold standard for trade deals. "I hate the TPP." So she changed on everything. What is she voting for, who are you voting for? What are we doing here? She's going to win it just on recognition.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

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

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

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.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

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

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

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

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

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.

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

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

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

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

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.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

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

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal 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.

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.

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.

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.

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?

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"

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

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

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

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.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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

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

You can't be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.

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

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