Best Rights Quotes

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

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.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity…

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’

The greatest contribution you can make to women’s rights, is to be the absolute … best at what you do.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

True, the movement for woman’s rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn’t make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it’s also a country based on racism and they don’t talk about that too much and every time there’s a film which deals with it there’s certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

I’m against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not – and must not – restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

I can’t remember when I wasn’t an animal rights activist.

You don’t have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support – just concerning human rights in general.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.