Rights Quotes
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Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.
Abraham Lincoln
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As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.
Nathaniel Altman
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Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we should have the same rights as men.
Evie Wyld
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I've always been a staunch supporter of songwriters' rights.
Claudia Brant
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Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.
Hillary Clinton
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If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.
Norm Phelps
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We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.
Bill Bright
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Joseph Priestley
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To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
Alex Epstein
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You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.
David D. Cole
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The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Stjepan Mesic
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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.
Aviva Chomsky
