Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anna Lindh

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

Angela Davis

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

Angela Davis

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Andrew Sullivan

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

Andrew Solomon

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Ameen Rihani

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

Anthony Kennedy

The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.

Anthony Kennedy

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Alice Paul

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

Alice Schwarzer

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

Abraham Lincoln

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

Abraham Lincoln

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

Abraham Lincoln

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Allen Weinstein

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.

Ann Douglas

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Ann Coulter

Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

Allen West

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

When it comes to the rights of women, he is particularly troubling.

Vandana Shiva

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Janis Ian

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Janet Napolitano

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

Bobby Scott

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Barry Goldwater

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

Antonin Scalia

If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

Elihu Root

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.

Elif Safak

Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a financial burden. For me, Europe is primarily about values, about fundamental rights, freedom, women's rights.

Bob Menendez

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.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

Bernice Johnson Reagon

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.