Quotes about rights
rights america principles
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. Ayn Rand
rights society fundamentals
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate. Benjamin Disraeli
rights gone creation
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. Eldridge Cleaver
rights long political
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights dignity born
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...
rights president individual
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
rights government democracy
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
rights events today
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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encroaching on citizens' rights and worsening the situation.
rights thinking
Our thinking was that all of these rights had been secured.
rights white
They didn't have the same rights as white people.
rights age cheaper
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. Hayao Miyazaki
rights essence ethics
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. Hans Kung
rights charter humans
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. Gerrit Smith
rights voting president
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Herman Cain
rights liberty libertarian
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. Herbert Spencer
rights branches sides
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. Herb Kohl
rights citizens kind
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
rights unlimited exceed
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
rights people holocaust
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. Jeremy Corbyn
rights evil atrocities
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.
rights democracies-have democracy
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. Fiona Shaw
rights class ironic
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Henry Louis Gates
rights talking people
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]. Gianfranco Fini
rights san-francisco numbers
San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings.......for it takes no money......it takes no compromising to give the people their rights......it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. Harvey Milk
rights giving lines
The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights. Hassan Nasrallah
rights people voting
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. James Bovard
rights government waiting
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.
rights long people
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
rights justice victim
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. Jalal Talabani
rights law practice
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers. Jacques Barzun
rights abuse causes
No cause can justify the abuse of human rights. Irene Khan
rights insecurity income
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.