Rights Quotes
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I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.
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The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
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For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
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The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
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We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
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The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
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True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights.
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Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.
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I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
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The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.
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So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.
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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
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Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.
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Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
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My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.
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The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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There's some things I want you to be aware of. I want you to know what your rights are.
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
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Man's legal rights are everywhere in collision with man's natural rights; hence the deep-rooted and wide-spread unrest of modern civilization. The only sacred right of property is the natural right of the working man to the product, which is the creation of his labor. The legal right of the capitalist to rent and interest and profit is the absolute denial of the natural right of labor.
