Quotes about rights
rights judging progress
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch. Michelle Alexander
rights matter standards
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. Michelle Bachelet
rights people underwear
People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution. Michele Bachmann
rights ifs property
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure. Neal Boortz
rights civilization white
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.
rights soul humanity
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God. Neale Donald Walsch
rights government years
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices. Nancy Pelosi
rights america independence
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed? John Tyler
rights perfect institutions
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
rights support community
He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects. John Stuart Mill
rights battle slavery
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose. John Shelby Spong
rights justice roles
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role. John Rawls
rights giving protection
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium) John Ralston Saul
rights citizens birth
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection. James K. Polk
rights minorities majority
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
rights democracy privilege
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe. James Inhofe
rights liberty dare
They have rights who dare maintain them. James Russell Lowell
rights support gone
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion James Q. Wilson
rights black sound
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. Gary Clark, Jr.
rights government essentials
While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Friedrich August von Hayek
rights democracy minorities
You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works. Jacob Zuma
rights movement jazz
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. Henry Rollins
rights blood three
They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain. Malcolm X
rights law effort
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.
rights-in-america justice goal
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.
rights earth given
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
rights tree humans
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
rights government people
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.
rights confusion chaos
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. Mahatma Gandhi
rights citizenship states
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
rights people duty
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
rights duty ifs
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
rights source duty
The true source of rights is duty.