Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Alexander

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Madeleine L'Engle

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Lysander Spooner

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.

Lysander Spooner

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

Louisa May Alcott

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

John F. Kennedy

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

Lindsay Lohan

The biggest misconception is probably that I don't have my head in the right place.

Lawrence Kohlberg

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.

Joseph Story

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens.

John Marshall

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

John Mayer

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.

John Lewis

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

John Lennon

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

Jody Watley

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

George Mason

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

George Mason

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

George MacDonald

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

Elliott Abrams

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

Josh Hutcherson

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

Joseph McCabe

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.

Katherine Center

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Joyce Meyer

Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.

Justin Sane

In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

Joseph Cook

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

Lawrence Wright

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

John Keats

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

Lisa Kleypas

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

China will certainly pay more attention to human rights.

Liu Xiaobo

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

Lucy Stone

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Malachy McCourt

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

Malala Yousafzai

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.