Rights Quotes
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Nowadays, all the world over, we cannot confine the definition of a nationality to the narrow bounds of race, religion etc, Nations are extending the rights of their respective communities even to others who may not belong to them except by their mere residence amongst them and their determination to live and be with them.
Aung San
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Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Ernestine Rose
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The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.
Sun Yat-sen
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In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.
Michael Tubbs
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I don't believe gun owners have rights.
Sarah Brady
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I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
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We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
Alex Pacheco
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Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.
Andrew Linzey
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In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.
Sean Penn
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Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
Michael McCaul
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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean
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Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Esther Dyson