Quotes about rights
rights standards should
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. George F. Kennan
rights tvs spain
In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One. Fernando Alonso
rights birth-control able
If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. Faye Wattleton
rights liberty duty
Liberty is not a right but a duty. Ezra Pound
rights government political
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government. Ezra Taft Benson
rights government essentials
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments. Francis Hutcheson
rights views class
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman Grover Cleveland
rights want ifs
If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. Harriet Beecher Stowe
rights passing partners
And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have. Hugh Shelton
rights evil bills
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many. Hugo Black
rights law practice
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights. Hugo Black
rights government people
The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Hugo Black
rights people water
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights. Hugo Chavez
rights blood law
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law. Hosni Mubarak
rights giving purpose
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. George Bernard Shaw
rights retreat womens-rights
We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward. Bernie Sanders
rights long facts
I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment. Bernie Sanders
rights government america
I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue. Bernie Sanders
rights
I'm not an unreasonable person, but I feel that my rights have been violated.
rights
It's outrageous, ... It's an infringement on the rights of children.
rights years two
We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.
rights civil-rights kind
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong. Bryan Cranston
rights records administration
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science. Jane Mayer
rights asks
I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs. Caroline Norton
rights healthcare housing
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights. Glenn Beck
rights common-sense freedom-of-speech
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. Glenn Beck
rights liberty authority
Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them. Gilbert K. Chesterton
rights giving house
I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free. Gilbert K. Chesterton
rights citizens relation
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health. Gilbert K. Chesterton
rights needs speech
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. Hank Johnson
rights mind anarchy
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold. Frank Zappa
rights civil-rights ballots
You can't put civil rights on the ballot. Jesse Ventura
rights people needs
We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights. Jean-Bertrand Aristide