Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ernest Hocking

Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

William Rehnquist

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

Wilhelm Reich

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

William J. Brennan

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

William Jennings Bryan

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Woodrow Wilson

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history...

Warren Farrell

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

Yoweri Museveni

In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.

Ziggy Marley

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

Ziggy Marley

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

William Hague

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

William Hague

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

William Hazlitt

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Wendell Phillips

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

Wendell Berry

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

William Blackstone

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

William Blackstone

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Samuel Gompers

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

Samuel Gompers

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Ward Churchill

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

Kofi Annan

A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

Kofi Annan

The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

Kofi Annan

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

Kofi Annan

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

Ralph Klein

This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms.

Laura Bush

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

Laura Bush

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Lara Logan

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

L. Ron Hubbard

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Terry Pratchett

I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?