Explore Quotes on Rights

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... _x000D_ I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. _x000D_ I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. _x000D_ I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, _x000D_ necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

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