Rights Quotes
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My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.
Joyce Banda
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.
Rachel Bloom
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Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.
Joseph Stiglitz
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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.
Alice Steinbach
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The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
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Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.
E.W. Jackson
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Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
William Ernest Hocking
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Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.
Sara Willis
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To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
Gerrit Smith
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
Max Lerner
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The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
William Wells Brown
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All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.
Dalai Lama
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We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.
Luther Strange
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Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
Albert Einstein
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We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.
Barack Obama
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Management has no divine rights.
Walter Reuther
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The Constitution was never amended to take away rights from a group of Americans.
Evan Wolfson
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
William Hazlitt
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Southerners who had insisted on states’ rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights.
Andrew Delbanco
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
Chuck Norris
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The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
Qiu Jin