Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.

Angelina Grimke

I recognize no rights but human rights.

Chuck Todd

The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.

Alf Landon

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Andrew Jackson

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been accomplished by measures equally advantageous to the Indians. What the native savages become when surrounded by a dense population and by mixing with the whites may be seen in the miserable remnants of a few Eastern tribes, deprived of political and civil rights, forbidden to make contracts, and subjected to guardians, dragging out a wretched existence, without excitement, without hope, and almost without thought.

Andrew Jackson

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Allyson Schwartz

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

Andy Rooney

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Andrew Young

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Andrew Young

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

Andrew Young

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Chuck Palahniuk

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

Chuck Hagel

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

Angelina Grimke

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

Andrew Cohen

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

Andrew Carnegie

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

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.

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