300 Quotes on Rights

• All men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights

  Author: Alexander Hamilton

• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

  Author: Jiang Zemin

• The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  Author: Frances Wright

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  Author: Frances Wright

• Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

  Author: John Wooden

• Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

  Author: Diane Wood

• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

  Author: Pete Wilson

• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

  Author: James Wilson

• Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

  Author: Eli Whitney

• I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

  Author: William Weld

• In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  Author: George Weinberg

• One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

  Author: Simone Weil

• No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

  Author: Noah Webster

• I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

  Author: Marcia Wallace

• The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Author: Queen Victoria

• Latinos must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society.

  Author: Patricia Velazquez

• To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

  Author: Andrew Vachss

• And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

  Author: Sojourner Truth

• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  Author: John Trumbull

• Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

  Author: Boris Trajkovski

• We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

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

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong.

  Author: Dionigi Tettamanzi

• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Author: Charles Sumner

• I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

  Author: Megawati Sukarnoputri

• We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

  Author: David Strathairn

• The idea of equal rights was in the air.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

  Author: Potter Stewart

• The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

  Author: Potter Stewart

• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Author: Danielle Steel

• First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Author: Pete Stark

• Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

  Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  Author: L. Smith

• My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

  Author: Ron Silver

• I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

  Author: Jules Shear

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

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

  Author: Shakira

• Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

  Author: William Seward

• Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

  Author: Hun Sen

• Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

  Author: Hun Sen

• I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

  Author: Leah Sears

• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  Author: Carl Schurz

• I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

  Author: Richard Scaife

• One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

  Author: Dan Savage

• The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

  Author: Thomas Sankara

• Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

  Author: Don Rose

• Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

  Author: Elihu Root

• Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

  Author: Will Rogers

• In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

  Author: Mary Robinson

• It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

  Author: Ann Robinson

• Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

  Author: Maximilien Robespierre

• Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

  Author: Jay Roach

• However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

  Author: Boyd Rice

• The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

  Author: Agnes Repplier

• A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Author: Robert Reich

• It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

  Author: Orville Redenbacher

• Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

  Author: Henri Rebecque

• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

  Author: John Reagan

• A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

  Author: Johannes Rau

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

  Author: A. Randolph

• Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

  Author: Pasquier Quesnel

• We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  Author: Philip Pullman

• I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

  Author: David Prowse

• By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

  Author: Sextus Propertius

• I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.

  Author: Jon Porter

• A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  Author: James Polk

• Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

  Author: John Polanyi

• Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

  Author: John Polanyi

• The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

  Author: John Polanyi

• The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

  Author: John Polanyi

• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• I love the idea of "the one" but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

  Author: Evita Peron

• Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

  Author: Richard Perle

• National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

  Author: Richard Perle

• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Author: Richard Perle

• In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

  Author: Li Peng

• A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

  Author: Leonard Peltier

• The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

  Author: Ron Paul

• All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

  Author: Alice Paul

• I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Author: Alice Paul

• Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

  Author: Tom Palmer

• What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

  Author: Tom Palmer

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

  Author: Olof Palme

• Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

  Author: Robert Owen

• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

  Author: Michael Ondaatje

• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Author: Ted Olson

• I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

  Author: William Odom

• Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

  Author: Novalis

• I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

  Author: Kim Novak

• First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

  Author: George Norris

• Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

  Author: Taslima Nasrin

• The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

  Author: Kathy Najimy

• We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

  Author: Frank Murphy

• Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

  Author: Peter Munk

• The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

  Author: Constance Motley

• A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

  Author: Lance Morrow

• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

  Author: Karen Morley

• We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

  Author: Marc Morial

• Rights come from God, not from government.

  Author: Roy Moore

• And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

  Author: Roy Moore

• But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

  Author: Roy Moore

• If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

  Author: Roy Moore

• If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

  Author: Roy Moore

• But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

  Author: Marilyn Monroe

• In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

  Author: James Monroe

• We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

  Author: Hayao Miyazaki

• NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

  Author: Stjepan Mesic

• I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

  Author: James Meredith

• We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

  Author: Cynthia McKinney

• 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.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  Author: Aaron McGruder

• As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

  Author: George McClellan

• Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

  Author: George McClellan

• When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

  Author: Joseph McCabe

• The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

  Author: Giuseppe Mazzini

• Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  Author: George Mason

• I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

  Author: Paul Martin

• In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

  Author: Paul Martin

• I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

  Author: Paul Martin

• A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

  Author: Thurgood Marshall

• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

  Author: Bob Marley

• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Author: Ed Markey

• In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

  Author: Ed Markey

• I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

  Author: Joe Manchin III

• We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

  Author: Bill Maher

• As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

  Author: James Madison

• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

  Author: James Madison

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

  Author: James Madison

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

  Author: Ali MacGraw

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Author: Wangari Maathai

• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Author: Tran Luong

• The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

  Author: Trent Lott

• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Author: Kurt Loder

• Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

  Author: John Linder

• I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

  Author: Blanche Lincoln

• To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

  Author: Judith Light

• There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

  Author: Judith Light

• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

• A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  Author: John Lewis

• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  Author: John Lewis

• If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

  Author: Sheila Lee

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  Author: Patrick Leahy

• Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

  Author: Nick Lampson

• Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

  Author: Suzanne Lafollette

• When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

  Author: Marquis Lafayette

• True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

  Author: Marquis Lafayette

• It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

  Author: Aung Kyi

• And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  Author: Hans Kung

• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

  Author: Lisa Kudrow

• I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

  Author: Peter Krause

• In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.

  Author: David Korten

• Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

  Author: David Korten

• Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

  Author: Lawrence Kohlberg

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

  Author: Edward Koch

• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

  Author: Coretta King

• It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

  Author: Aly Khan

• The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

  Author: Ali Khamenei

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