Rights Quotes - Page 30

• It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

  James Hunter

  Responsibility, Leader, Accountability

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill

  Kesha

  Dog, Believe, Animal

  9 Copy quote

• We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

  18 Copy quote

• Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

  16 Copy quote

• Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.

  Derek R. Audette

  Exercise, People, Silence

  5 Copy quote

• Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.

  Ambrose

  Men, Use, Earth

  9 Copy quote

• What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.

  Bill Drayton

  Powerful, Thinking, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

  Michael Gerson

  Book, Average, Nsa

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.

  Malina Suliman

  Art, Husband, Dolls

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.

  Malina Suliman

  Wall, Voice, People

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.

  Malina Suliman

  Husband, Sacrifice, Men

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I start talking about my own hopes, it'll take hours. The biggest hope is that there's not any more discrimination between men and women. That women could have equal rights. It's very painful when you see in your family that a brother can do anything he wants, but at the same age, you can't.

  Malina Suliman

  Brother, Men, Talking

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  Barack Obama

  Agreement, Environmental, Trying

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". www.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Our Society, Should

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not one of the investigations for civil rights violations that Eric Holder brought on behalf of the Department of Justice, resulted in any charges against any of these individuals, not one. I'm not saying investigations shouldn't be brought. But you must bring them responsibly and not create more panic, more fear, more anxiety across this country.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Justice, Anxiety

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

  Jamie Bell

  Children, Growing Up, Fighting

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Issues, Minorities, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Ideas, Two

  6 Copy quote

• It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

  John F. Kennedy

  Way, Tradition, Ifs

  46 Copy quote

• We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Responsibility, Fighting, Winning

  44 Copy quote

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Liberty

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “State papers, 1861-1865”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Politics

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Play, Common Sense

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Pride, Guarantees That

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

  John Dryden

  Men, Self, Democracy

  7 Copy quote