Rights Quotes - Page 31

• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Should Have, Independence

  10 Copy quote

• Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Lying, Views

  75 Copy quote

• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Done, Benefits, Enough

  17 Copy quote

• It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

  Harvey Milk

  San Francisco, Numbers, People

  41 Copy quote

• America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

  Richard Ford

  America, People, Beats

  4 Copy quote

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Civil Rights Act

  10 Copy quote

• The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Responsibility, Agency, Broken

  "Democratized Holiness: Yom Kippur And Moral Responsibility" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

  Angela Davis

  Prison, Involved

  "PBS Interview with Angela Davis". PBS: Frontline, www.pbs.org. 1998.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Movement, Women's Rights, Supporter

  4 Copy quote

• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  William Cowper Brann

  Ignorance, Perfect, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.

  Rick Santorum

  Exercise, Government, Giving

  Rick Santorum's victory speech in Iowa, www.washingtonexaminer.com. February 8, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Issues, Long, Justice

  4 Copy quote

• The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

  Liu Xiaobo

  World, Regimes, Humans

  "Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?" by Barry Sautman, Yan Hairong, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  David Boies

  Past, Decision, Minorities

  63 Copy quote

• Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

  Howard Berman

  Iran, Records, Humans

  75 Copy quote

• The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

  Joe Baca

  Corporations, Republican

  7 Copy quote

• Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.

  Traian Basescu

  Moving, Europe, Law

  5 Copy quote

• I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

  Phil Crane

  Government, Hands, People

  10 Copy quote

• I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

  Alan Autry

  Believe, Men, Deny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Morality

  "We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

  5 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

• I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

  Gloria Allred

  Civil Rights, Victim, Attorney

  4 Copy quote

• We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  People, Needs, Rich

  "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source