Rights Quotes

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

~ Ben Stein

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

~ Bono

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

~ Margaret Thatcher

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

~ Lyman Trumbull

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

~ Jeff Sessions

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

~ Leland Stanford

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

~ John Hume

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

~ Tom G. Palmer

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

~ Scott Fujita

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

~ Gray Scott

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

~ John Tyler

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

~ Shirin Ebadi

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

~ Arlen Specter

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

~ Aaron Rodgers

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

~ Susan B. Anthony

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

~ Sojourner Truth

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

~ Alice Paul

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

~ Taslima Nasrin

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

~ Queen Victoria

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

~ Evita Peron

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

~ Barbara Castle

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

~ Karen Morley

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

~ Desmond Tutu

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.

~ Jim Brown

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

~ Penn Jillette

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

~ Samantha Power

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

~ Mike Quigley

In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.

~ Eric Schneiderman

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

~ Chuck Schumer

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

~ Jim Brown

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.

~ Eric Holder

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

~ John Trudell

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.

~ Gordon Brown

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

~ Pat Buchanan

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

~ Gary Bauer