Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

Jim Costa

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Georges Bernanos

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Jefferson Davis

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

Jean Racine

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Elton Gallegly

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Elvis Costello

Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal

Jason Mraz

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Hillary Clinton

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

Hillary Clinton

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress,

Hillary Clinton

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

Hillary Clinton

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

Hillary Clinton

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

Hillary Clinton

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

Evgeny Morozov

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

Evan Bayh

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

Eva Longoria

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

Grover Cleveland

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

Hugh Shelton

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.

Hugo Black

[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

Hugo Black

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

Hugo Black

The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

Hugo Chavez

Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

Hosni Mubarak

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

Gianfranco Fini

If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals].

Friedrich Nietzsche

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

George Bernard Shaw

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

Erica Jong

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

George W. Bush

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

George W. Bush

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

George Soros

The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

Frederick Douglass

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