Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Allen West

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

Dorothy Height

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

Dalai Lama

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

Dalai Lama

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

Dalai Lama

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

Dick Gregory

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Dick Gregory

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Desmond Tutu

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

Desmond Tutu

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Desmond Tutu

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

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.

Daisaku Ikeda

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Clarence Thomas

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Clarence Thomas

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

Dan Quayle

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

Cornel West

Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.