Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. Votes: 3
Charles Edward MerriamFreedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. Votes: 3
George WashingtonFor a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. Votes: 3
Gary Clark, Jr.The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. Votes: 3
Ted NugentNo one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. Votes: 3
Anthony KennedyAnimal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. Votes: 3
Philip WollenA Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. Votes: 3
Antonin ScaliaAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Votes: 3
Jimmy CarterThe Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. Votes: 3
William J. BrennanI favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. Votes: 3
Ronald ReaganIt is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. Votes: 3
Earl WarrenRights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. Votes: 3
Anthony TrollopeThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. Votes: 3
Jerry GarciaAmericans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books. Votes: 3
Bradley A. SmithClose by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Votes: 3
Victor HugoThe earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Votes: 2
Chief JosephI am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Votes: 2
Abraham LincolnWe will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Votes: 1
Will RogersWe always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. Votes: 1
Wynton MarsalisIf we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. Votes: 1
Joichi ItoGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. Votes: 1
Bob MarleyOnly majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. Votes: 0
David BartonCommunities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. Votes: 0
Michael BadnarikIf people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights. Votes: 0
Stuart BriscoePreventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights. Votes: 0
Nita AmbaniPeople cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat. Votes: 0
Velupillai PrabhakaranChildren's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. Votes: 0
Letty Cottin PogrebinUnity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere. Votes: 0
Nawal El SaadawiMen, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. Votes: 0
Susan B. AnthonyAll governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. Votes: 0
Richard StallmanIran is determined to remove ambiguities, continue talks and win its rights. Votes: 0
Hamid-Reza AssefiJust as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonEducation is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today. Votes: 0
Michelle ObamaThe suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. Votes: 0
Merlin StoneIf something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights. Votes: 0
Emily BerringtonThe whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments. Votes: 0
Mary RobinsonIn cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. Votes: 0
Marisa TomeiThe quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. Votes: 0
William J. Brennan, Jr.In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe. Votes: 0
Recep Tayyip ErdoganMany more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. Votes: 0
Samuel P. HuntingtonMake a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. Votes: 0
Rohinton MistryAll... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonWhat is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? Votes: 0
Ernestine RoseThe rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. Votes: 0
Mercy Otis WarrenThe rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodhullI am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. Votes: 0
Jim OberweisThe extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Votes: 0
Charles FourierOnce you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again. Votes: 0
Dianne FeinsteinYou can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. Votes: 0
Ellen GoodmanNo society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. Votes: 0
Richard LayardJustice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't. Votes: 0
Angela Davis... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. Votes: 0
Janeane GarofaloInsurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. Votes: 0
Marquis de LafayetteNo society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. Votes: 0
Richard Layard, Baron LayardBlack-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. Votes: 0
Ryan CooglerBy 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. Votes: 0
Constance Baker MotleyIt is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonTime does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights. Votes: 0
Rod CoronadoOur collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others. Votes: 0
Walter MosleyMale-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. Votes: 0
Warren FarrellYou're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had. Votes: 0
DaShanne Stokesit make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities Votes: 0
Randy PauschSome other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers. Votes: 0
Bernie SandersWe expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. Votes: 0
Dan QuayleA nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights. Votes: 0
Edmund PhelpsPhyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves. Votes: 0
Andy RooneyThey [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. Votes: 0
Roger Brooke TaneyLet us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonMy own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonLiberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillIn a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression. Votes: 0
Philip SchuylerAll peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights. Votes: 0
Mahmoud AhmadinejadThe people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierRosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. Votes: 0
Douglas BrinkleyI am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years. Votes: 0
Bianca JaggerCapital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnWhich do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices? Votes: 0
Lysa TerKeurstWe cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasWe talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasI support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause itâs cute. Votes: 0
Lauren JaureguiParents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. Votes: 0
Melinda HarmonThis is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children. Votes: 0
Alan DershowitzMy parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change. Votes: 0
Julia SeranoThe new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all. Votes: 0
Evo MoralesFundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuThe idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Votes: 0
Shirin EbadiWorkers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women. Votes: 0
Nadezhda KrupskayaThe English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. Votes: 0
Will RogersMy personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues. Votes: 0
Cindy GallopWhere, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltLive with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. Votes: 0
Nathaniel BrandenTrue liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. Votes: 0
Gerrit SmithIt is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonThe Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. Votes: 0
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaAmerica's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. Votes: 0
William BennettThe rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. Votes: 0
Ricky MartinI boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodhullHuman rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world. Votes: 0
Rebecca MacKinnonWhen the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened. Votes: 0
Christopher Dodd....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. Votes: 0
Kathryn StockettEqual laws protecting equal rights"¦the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. Votes: 0
James MadisonLiberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Votes: 0
Joichi ItoThere cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. Votes: 0
Mohammed MorsiNo mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did. Votes: 0
Cecile RichardsTwo soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerIf women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweWe know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. Votes: 0
Robert KennedyIt is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy. Votes: 0
Dorothy KilgallenWell, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerFreedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldIt is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonWe live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel. Votes: 0
John FugelsangThe fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women. Votes: 0
Laura BushMen and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal. Votes: 0
Harri HolkeriThe rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Votes: 0
John F. Kennedy'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldShe's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. Votes: 0
Kate ChopinA man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. Votes: 0
Ayn RandThe way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all. Votes: 0
Martin O'MalleyA rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights. Votes: 0
Lance MorrowWe can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... Votes: 0
William J. ClintonZeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. Votes: 0
Pasquier QuesnelThe unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. Votes: 0
Andrew YoungI am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country. Votes: 0
Bernie SandersOne thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. Votes: 0
Charles M. BlowThe purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerIf some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. Votes: 0
Oliver HerfordWe must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. Votes: 0
James MonroeI'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. Votes: 0
Sara RamirezThe fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. Votes: 0
George BancroftThe right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people. Votes: 0
Laurie AndersonIf you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynI support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way. Votes: 0
Kelly PrestonI'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. Votes: 0
Sophie Ellis-BextorI'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. Votes: 0
Sophie Ellis BextorI am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs. Votes: 0
Corey FeldmanIf artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiI'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelCoffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarterCertainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIf we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. Votes: 0
Joichi ItoWe are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists. Votes: 0
Amit AbrahamMy rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. Votes: 0
Gerrit SmithNothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. Votes: 0
Ron SilverIf all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country. Votes: 0
Eliot EngelThe strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights. Votes: 0
Kristin Bauer van StratenIf the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all. Votes: 0
Walter E. WilliamsI firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. Votes: 0
Sonia SotomayorWe too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers. Votes: 0
Frances O'GradyA Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyAs animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. Votes: 0
Shane BarbiThe stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisThe rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyIt is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. Votes: 0
John Philpot CurranI tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights. Votes: 0
Jules ShearHuman rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
Alice SchwarzerIt is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Desmond TutuThe destruction of the earthâs environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
Desmond TutuThe destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Eleanor RooseveltThe most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Frank GaffneyThe first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
Jesse JacksonThe only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.
Kate DiCamilloAll I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
Martha GriffithsViolence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,
Patrick StewartThe West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.
Vladimir SorokinLife doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.
Aaron TveitIf you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.
Chuck PalahniukA man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Frederick DouglassClever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
Friedrich NietzscheWe cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
Gary L. FrancioneEstablish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
Jeannette RankinWhat makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.
Matthew DowdPressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
Adolf HitlerI call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?
Dalai LamaIt's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
Danny GloverYou have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that's how democracy works.
Jacob ZumaThe equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
Jacques MaritainNo people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
Mahatma GandhiRights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
Mahatma GandhiEve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
Marcia WallaceIn the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
Ruhollah KhomeiniI know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
Sarah Moore GrimkeOrganized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
Annie Laurie GaylorOne of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
Calvin CoolidgeThe modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges BernanosIf ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
Jim HightowerI believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.
Joel MaddenWe believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.
Jose Ramos-HortaThe King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Patrick HenryI'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.
Taslima NasrinWomen, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.
Olympe de GougesI want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
Angelina GrimkeThey made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
Edmund BurkeThe right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Erwin GriswoldEqual rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Francoise GiroudOften those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.
Hillary ClintonWe are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.
Jean-Bertrand AristideHappy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.
John LegendJesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John OrtbergI've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.
Josh HutchersonNo one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian HellmanThe meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiWe need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
Pearl S. BuckWhen people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."
Edward SnowdenYou cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
Merle MillerThe thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Paul FarmerLook, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
Rowan AtkinsonYou can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.
Sonny BargerGenuine rights don't conflictthey enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
Yaron BrookI recognize no rights but human rights--I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights ...
Angelina GrimkeI am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
Ban Ki-moonI chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
Chen GuangchengIf you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
Chuck NorrisI wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.
Hillary ClintonI am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
Inez MilhollandWhat about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
Keith AblowA basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad AyoobOne of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
Noam ChomskyHuman rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.
Tony FernandesThose who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
William HazlittWe [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
Woodrow WilsonBy ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
Carol BellamyYou have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
David McCulloughI think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
Fawn HallThe humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
Julian BondCivil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
Mary Frances BerryMan [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
Thomas JeffersonThe last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
William Wells BrownThe most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
Ziggy MarleyWomen deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.
Carolyn MaloneyIn going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
Dick DurbinIn giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
John F. KennedyI do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu KyiStudents for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.
Bill AyersOur rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.
Chris CuomoAll over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Jon Lech JohansenI don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.
Lee ChildI was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
Nina SimoneThe rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
Robert Green IngersollI am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Friedrich NietzscheI set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
Gustavo Dudamel[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.
Hillary ClintonIn a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
James MadisonIf you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
Jessica ValentiAll men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
John Legend... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
Sarah Josepha HaleWe must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
Akbar GanjiPeople look at rights as if they were muscles â the more you exercise them, the better they get.
Antonin ScaliaPresident [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
Danny GloverTo renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
Jill SteinI believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
Robert BreaultWhen gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
Roger ScrutonNations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
William J. H. BoetckerTrue, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Emma GoldmanThat is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.
Israel ShahakThe state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
John AshcroftWe can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.
Queen Noor of JordanNorth Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.
Shirin EbadiPeace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.
Theo van BovenThe right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
Thomas PaineSuccess is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.
Andrew CarnegieCapitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
Ayn RandPeople are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.
George Carlin[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
Jeffrey RosenEvery person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
Mahatma GandhiOur involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
Mary Jane PattersonAny country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.
Sepp BlatterBoth parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
Warren FarrellIt just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. Votes: 1 Floyd Abrams
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. Votes: 2 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. Votes: 1 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. Votes: 3 Charles Darwin
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. Votes: 6 Daryl Hannah
I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill Votes: 3 Kesha
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. Votes: 4 Imelda Marcos
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Votes: 1 Thomas Sowell
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Votes: 4 Thomas Jefferson
There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. Votes: 4 Pete du Pont
I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections. Votes: 2 Edward Brooke
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. Votes: 3 Dorothy Height
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. Votes: 5 Mary Frances Berry
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will. Votes: 3 Antonin Scalia
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. Votes: 1 Lyman Trumbull
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. Votes: 4 Andrew Young
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience Votes: 5 Bernice Johnson Reagon
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Votes: 5 Mitt Romney
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. Votes: 2 Garrett Hardin
It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe . Votes: 3 Raila Odinga
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people. Votes: 2 Hu Jintao
The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches. Votes: 1 David Souter
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. Votes: 1 Andrew Cuomo
The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner. Votes: 1 Joe Baca
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off. Votes: 3 Gail Collins
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. Votes: 1 Niger Innis
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. Votes: 3 Ken Mehlman
And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work. Votes: 3 Karen Morley
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. Votes: 4 Emma Goldman
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. Votes: 4 Patricia Ireland
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. Votes: 3 Emma Goldman
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. Votes: 3 Gerry Adams
Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump. Votes: 3 Vic Toews
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. Votes: 2 Floyd Abrams
I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in - and the West in general - into an unbearable hell and a choking life. Votes: 3 Osama bin Laden
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. Votes: 2 Dan Savage
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. Votes: 8 B. R. Ambedkar
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood. Votes: 2 Jackson Katz
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Votes: 4 Jimmy Carter
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement. Votes: 1 Michael Ignatieff
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. Votes: 3 Daryl Hannah
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. Votes: 1 Stockwell Day
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. Votes: 4 Curt Weldon
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. Votes: 2 Nathan Myhrvold
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. Votes: 2 Maximilien Robespierre
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Votes: 4 Ayn Rand
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. Votes: 4 Jim Oberweis
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people. Votes: 2 Aung San Suu Kyi
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. Votes: 4 Tony Campolo
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Votes: 1 Joichi Ito
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. Votes: 3 Auberon Herbert
The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all? Votes: 3 Pink
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them. Votes: 1 Lysander Spooner
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. Votes: 4 Samuel Adams
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. Votes: 4 John Wooden
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational. Votes: 3 Horace Greeley
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes. Votes: 3 Melissa Bean
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. Votes: 3 Calvin Coolidge
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. Votes: 1 Tom Allen
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. Votes: 3 James Madison
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. Votes: 1 Richard Mentor Johnson
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. Votes: 3 Lou Holtz
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! Votes: 4 Leon Bourgeois
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. Votes: 2 Leonard Peltier
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. Votes: 2 Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. Votes: 2 Ian Mckellen
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. Votes: 1 Charlotte Bunch
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community. Votes: 3 Barbara Ehrenreich
The French revolution taught us the rights of man. Votes: 3 Thomas Sankara
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. Votes: 1 Hanna Rosin
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women. Votes: 2 Marjane Satrapi
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. Votes: 4 Thomas Jefferson
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed. Votes: 3 George Meany
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so. Votes: 4 Andrew Young
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly. Votes: 3 Dick Gephardt
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species. Votes: 3 Alice Steinbach
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling. Votes: 1 Sanjeev Bhaskar
At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights. Votes: 3 Stephanie Schriock
Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality. Votes: 1 Sam Taylor-Johnson
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Votes: 1 Patricia Richardson
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. Votes: 1 Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. Votes: 4 Florynce Kennedy
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won. Votes: 3 Sherrod Brown