Rights Quotes

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men,it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

~ Ayn Rand

There is no such thing as the right to enslave.A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).

~ Ayn Rand

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

~ Alfred Tennyson

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

~ J. Paul Getty

For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

~ G. Willow Wilson

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

~ Robert Mugabe

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

~ James Madison

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

~ Eli Whitney

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

~ Martin O'malley

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

~ Hassan Rouhani

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

~ Mauricio Macri

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

~ Ed Koch

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

~ Harvey Milk

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

~ Roger Ebert

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

~ George B. Mcclellan

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

~ Evo Morales

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

~ Benito Juárez

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities; in every other country, they are a guest.

~ James Lankford

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

~ Michelle Bachelet

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

~ Dorothy Height

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

~ Maya Angelou

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

~ John C. Calhoun

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

~ John Wooden

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.

~ George William Norris

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

~ Danielle Steel

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.

~ Debbie Reynolds

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

~ Alexander Hamilton

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

~ Alexander Hamilton

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

~ George Mason

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.

~ Allison Schroeder

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

~ Sitting Bull

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

~ Will Rogers

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

~ Charles B. Rangel

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

~ Lucy Stone

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

~ Charles Fourier