Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. Votes: 3
George WashingtonRights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. Votes: 3
Charles Edward MerriamFor a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. Votes: 3
Gary Clark, Jr.The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. Votes: 3
Ted NugentNo one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. Votes: 3
Anthony KennedyAnimal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. Votes: 3
Philip WollenA Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. Votes: 3
Antonin ScaliaAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Votes: 3
Jimmy CarterThe Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. Votes: 3
William J. BrennanI favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. Votes: 3
Ronald ReaganIt is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. Votes: 3
Earl WarrenRights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. Votes: 3
Anthony TrollopeThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. Votes: 3
Jerry GarciaAmericans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books. Votes: 3
Bradley A. SmithClose by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Votes: 3
Victor HugoThe earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Votes: 2
Chief JosephI am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Votes: 2
Abraham LincolnWe will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Votes: 1
Will RogersWe always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. Votes: 1
Wynton MarsalisIf we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. Votes: 1
Joichi ItoGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. Votes: 1
Bob MarleyOnly majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. Votes: 0
David BartonPreventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights. Votes: 0
Nita AmbaniIf people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights. Votes: 0
Stuart BriscoeCommunities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. Votes: 0
Michael BadnarikPeople cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat. Votes: 0
Velupillai PrabhakaranUnity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere. Votes: 0
Nawal El SaadawiMen, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. Votes: 0
Susan B. AnthonyChildren's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. Votes: 0
Letty Cottin PogrebinAll governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. Votes: 0
Richard StallmanJust as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonThe suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. Votes: 0
Merlin StoneEducation is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today. Votes: 0
Michelle ObamaIran is determined to remove ambiguities, continue talks and win its rights. Votes: 0
Hamid-Reza AssefiIf something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights. Votes: 0
Emily BerringtonIn cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. Votes: 0
Marisa TomeiThe whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments. Votes: 0
Mary RobinsonBy 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. Votes: 0
Constance Baker Motleyit make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities Votes: 0
Randy PauschLately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. Votes: 0
Rohinton MistryMake a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. Votes: 0
Warren FarrellYou're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had. Votes: 0
DaShanne StokesOur collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others. Votes: 0
Walter MosleySome other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonMany more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. Votes: 0
Samuel P. HuntingtonThe Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers. Votes: 0
Bernie SandersWe expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. Votes: 0
Dan QuayleA nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights. Votes: 0
Edmund PhelpsPhyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves. Votes: 0
Andy RooneyI believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights. Votes: 0
Rod CoronadoTime does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBlack-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. Votes: 0
Ryan CooglerNo society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. Votes: 0
Richard LayardYou can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. Votes: 0
Ellen GoodmanJustice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't. Votes: 0
Angela DavisOnce you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again. Votes: 0
Dianne FeinsteinIt is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonThe extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Votes: 0
Charles FourierNo society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. Votes: 0
Richard Layard, Baron LayardI am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. Votes: 0
Jim OberweisThe rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodhullInsurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. Votes: 0
Marquis de Lafayette... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. Votes: 0
Janeane GarofaloThe rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. Votes: 0
Mercy Otis WarrenWhat is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? Votes: 0
Ernestine RoseAll... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonIn Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe. Votes: 0
Recep Tayyip ErdoganThe quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. Votes: 0
William J. Brennan, Jr.My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change. Votes: 0
Julia SeranoMy personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues. Votes: 0
Cindy GallopWhen the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened. Votes: 0
Christopher DoddEqual laws protecting equal rights"¦the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. Votes: 0
James MadisonLiberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Votes: 0
Joichi Ito....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. Votes: 0
Kathryn StockettThe new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all. Votes: 0
Evo MoralesHuman rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world. Votes: 0
Rebecca MacKinnonThe English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. Votes: 0
Will RogersFundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuI boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodhullThe rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. Votes: 0
Ricky MartinAmerica's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. Votes: 0
William BennettThe Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. Votes: 0
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaIt is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonTrue liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. Votes: 0
Gerrit SmithThe idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Votes: 0
Shirin EbadiWorkers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women. Votes: 0
Nadezhda KrupskayaLive with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. Votes: 0
Nathaniel BrandenWhere, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltThere cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. Votes: 0
Mohammed MorsiThey [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. Votes: 0
Roger Brooke TaneyCapital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnI am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years. Votes: 0
Bianca JaggerRosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. Votes: 0
Douglas BrinkleyThe thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierThe people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThis is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children. Votes: 0
Alan DershowitzIn a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression. Votes: 0
Philip SchuylerLiberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillMy own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonLet us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonWhich do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices? Votes: 0
Lysa TerKeurstAll peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights. Votes: 0
Mahmoud AhmadinejadI support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause itâs cute. Votes: 0
Lauren JaureguiWe cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasWe talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasParents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. Votes: 0
Melinda HarmonA man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. Votes: 0
Ayn RandIt is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy. Votes: 0
Dorothy KilgallenThe way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all. Votes: 0
Martin O'MalleyNo mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did. Votes: 0
Cecile RichardsTwo soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerIf some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. Votes: 0
Oliver HerfordWe must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. Votes: 0
James MonroeA rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights. Votes: 0
Lance MorrowWe can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... Votes: 0
William J. ClintonZeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. Votes: 0
Pasquier QuesnelThe unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. Votes: 0
Andrew YoungI am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country. Votes: 0
Bernie SandersWe know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. Votes: 0
Robert KennedyOne thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. Votes: 0
Charles M. BlowThe purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerWell, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. Votes: 0
Dwight D. Eisenhower'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldThe rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyThe fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women. Votes: 0
Laura BushWe live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel. Votes: 0
John FugelsangIt is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonI'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. Votes: 0
Sara RamirezIf women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweFreedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldShe's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. Votes: 0
Kate ChopinMen and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal. Votes: 0
Harri HolkeriNothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. Votes: 0
Ron SilverWhen it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists. Votes: 0
Amit AbrahamThe right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people. Votes: 0
Laurie AndersonIt is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMy rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. Votes: 0
Gerrit SmithThe freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country. Votes: 0
Eliot EngelI support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way. Votes: 0
Kelly PrestonI'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. Votes: 0
Sophie Ellis BextorIf artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiCoffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIf you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelI'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarterCertainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. Votes: 0
Sophie Ellis-BextorIf all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiI am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs. Votes: 0
Corey FeldmanThe fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. Votes: 0
George BancroftIf we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. Votes: 0
Joichi ItoWe are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAs animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. Votes: 0
Shane BarbiIf the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all. Votes: 0
Walter E. WilliamsA Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers. Votes: 0
Frances O'GradyI firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. Votes: 0
Sonia SotomayorThe loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights. Votes: 0
Kristin Bauer van StratenIt is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. Votes: 0
John Philpot CurranThe rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyThe stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisThe sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. Votes: 0
Ron PearceHuman rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
Alice SchwarzerIt is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Desmond TutuThe destruction of the earthâs environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
Desmond TutuThe destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Eleanor RooseveltThe most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Frank GaffneyThe first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
Jesse JacksonThe only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.
Kate DiCamilloAll I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
Martha GriffithsViolence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,
Patrick StewartThe West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.
Vladimir SorokinLife doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.
Aaron TveitIf you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.
Chuck PalahniukA man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Frederick DouglassClever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
Friedrich NietzscheWe cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
Gary L. FrancioneEstablish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
Jeannette RankinWhat makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.
Matthew DowdPressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
Adolf HitlerI call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?
Dalai LamaIt's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
Danny GloverYou have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that's how democracy works.
Jacob ZumaThe equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
Jacques MaritainNo people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
Mahatma GandhiRights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
Mahatma GandhiEve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
Marcia WallaceIn the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
Ruhollah KhomeiniI know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
Sarah Moore GrimkeOrganized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
Annie Laurie GaylorOne of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
Calvin CoolidgeThe modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges BernanosIf ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
Jim HightowerI believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.
Joel MaddenWe believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.
Jose Ramos-HortaThe King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Patrick HenryI'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.
Taslima NasrinWomen, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.
Olympe de GougesI want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
Angelina GrimkeThey made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
Edmund BurkeThe right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Erwin GriswoldEqual rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Francoise GiroudOften those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.
Hillary ClintonWe are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.
Jean-Bertrand AristideHappy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.
John LegendJesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John OrtbergI've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.
Josh HutchersonNo one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian HellmanThe meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiWe need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
Pearl S. BuckWhen people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."
Edward SnowdenYou cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
Merle MillerThe thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Paul FarmerLook, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
Rowan AtkinsonYou can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.
Sonny BargerGenuine rights don't conflictthey enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
Yaron BrookI recognize no rights but human rights--I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights ...
Angelina GrimkeI am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
Ban Ki-moonI chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
Chen GuangchengIf you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
Chuck NorrisI wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.
Hillary ClintonI am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
Inez MilhollandWhat about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
Keith AblowA basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad AyoobOne of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
Noam ChomskyHuman rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.
Tony FernandesThose who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
William HazlittWe [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
Woodrow WilsonBy ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
Carol BellamyYou have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
David McCulloughI think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
Fawn HallThe humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
Julian BondCivil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
Mary Frances BerryMan [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
Thomas JeffersonThe last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
William Wells BrownThe most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
Ziggy MarleyWomen deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.
Carolyn MaloneyIn going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
Dick DurbinIn giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
John F. KennedyI do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu KyiStudents for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.
Bill AyersOur rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.
Chris CuomoAll over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Jon Lech JohansenI don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.
Lee ChildI was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
Nina SimoneThe rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
Robert Green IngersollI am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Friedrich NietzscheI set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
Gustavo Dudamel[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.
Hillary ClintonIn a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
James MadisonIf you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
Jessica ValentiAll men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
John Legend... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
Sarah Josepha HaleWe must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
Akbar GanjiPeople look at rights as if they were muscles â the more you exercise them, the better they get.
Antonin ScaliaPresident [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
Danny GloverTo renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
Jill SteinI believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
Robert BreaultWhen gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
Roger ScrutonNations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
William J. H. BoetckerTrue, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Emma GoldmanThat is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.
Israel ShahakThe state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
John AshcroftWe can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.
Queen Noor of JordanNorth Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.
Shirin EbadiPeace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.
Theo van BovenThe right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
Thomas PaineSuccess is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.
Andrew CarnegieCapitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
Ayn RandPeople are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.
George Carlin[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
Jeffrey RosenEvery person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
Mahatma GandhiOur involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
Mary Jane PattersonAny country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.
Sepp BlatterBoth parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
Warren Farrell