Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Rothbard

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

Molly Ivins

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

H. L. Mencken

Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.

H. L. Mencken

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

H. L. Mencken

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

H. L. Mencken

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

Gary Hamel

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Glenn Reynolds

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Gloria Allred

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

Gloria Allred

I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.

Gerald R. Ford

The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

Jim DeMint

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

Horace Mann

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

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.

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.

Jack Kemp

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

Jack Antonoff

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

Before our contract, we had no rights whatsoever and no security whatsoever.

Harriet Tubman

Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.