Rights Quotes
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Management has no divine rights.
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German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
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What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called "right to work" laws, they don't have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics. What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money.
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I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.
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I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
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The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
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A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.
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I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.
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... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
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Southerners who had insisted on states’ rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights.
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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
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I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
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By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
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First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
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Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
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When women fight to protect their rights ... they hang on longer than the men
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
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I know what is going on here. People want to stand up for their rights. If they're here illegally, most of them are doing it to make a better life for themselves and their families. I'd just like to see them do it the right way.
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Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
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Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.
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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
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It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
