Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
~By Frederick The Great ~
Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
~By Douglas Feith ~
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
~By Rick Santorum ~
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."
~By Bradley Whitford ~
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
~By Erwin Griswold ~
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
~By Charles Sumner ~
Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.
~By Sheila Jackson Lee ~
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
~By Joseph McCabe ~
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
~By Roger Wicker ~
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
~By Ivan Allen ~
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
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.
~By Leland Stanford ~
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
~By Frank Murphy ~
Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
~By William Greider ~
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
~By James Bovard ~
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
~By Neil Young ~
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.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.
~By James Bovard ~
And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
~By John Bruton ~
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
~By Robert McChesney ~
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
~By Michael Apted ~
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
~By Michael Pollan ~
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
~By Olof Palme ~
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
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.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
~By Emma Thompson ~
The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.
~By Charles Moore ~
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
~By Horace Greeley ~
I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
~By Paul Martin ~
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
~By Potter Stewart ~
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
~By James Earl Jones ~
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
~By Joe Baca ~
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
~By Toni Morrison ~
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
~By Sam Houston ~
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.
~By Charles Rangel ~
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.
~By Peter Munk ~
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
~By Dick Durbin ~
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
~By Robin Gross ~
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
~By Ron Paul ~
The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
~By Jim Costa ~
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
~By Derek Jarman ~
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
~By Tony Campolo ~
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
~By Samuel Gompers ~
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
~By A. Philip Randolph ~
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.
~By Mark Davis ~
If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
~By Ayn Rand ~
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
~By Lucy Stone ~
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.
~By George Mason ~
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
~By Eugenie Anderson ~
I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
~By Danny Glover ~
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
~By Phil Crane ~
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
~By Ben Nelson ~
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
~By Mark Edwards ~
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
~By George Takei ~
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
~By Archie Shepp ~
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
~By Samuel Adams ~
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.
~By Danielle Steel ~
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
~By Bobby Scott ~
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
~By Tom Hayden ~
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
~By Ann Robinson ~
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
~By John L. Lewis ~
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
~By Marquis de Lafayette ~
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.
~By Charles Inglis ~
When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
~By Pete Wilson ~
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
~By Pat Robertson ~
The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
~By Frank Gaffney ~
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
~By Rene Cassin ~
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