Top 1200 Womens Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

I'm an American. I have constitutional rights.

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.

Rights come from God, not from government.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

I stand up for all rights.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

Two rights don't equal a left.

To be honest, sometimes you have to know your rights.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Workers' rights must be respected.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

Rights are in the power of the people.

Management has no divine rights.

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

We have to protect the rights of the American people.

Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.

I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meaningful way, you have to bring in the roles of African Americans - the enslaved blacks - and the roles of women, who were scarcely acknowledged by those documents. You have to discuss why slavery wasn't outlawed by the Constitution, why women weren't given the votes. The Bill of Rights isn't about dead white males anymore, and it's not just about live white males either; it's about every minority group that exists.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

The true source of rights is duty.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

I certainly believe in equal rights.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

I don't fight for bragging rights.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

I believe in equal rights for all people.

I've become an animal rights activist.

I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.

Our rights come from God, not the government.

I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.

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Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.