Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
~By Cynthia McKinney ~
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
~By Bart Stupak ~
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
~By William J. Brennan ~
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 ~
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
~By Lyn Nofziger ~
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
~By Richard Stallman ~
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
~By Kay Granger ~
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
~By James Madison ~
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
~By James F. Cooper ~
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
~By Roy Moore ~
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
~By Pam Grier ~
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
~By Eli Whitney ~
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
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 ~
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
~By Warren Christopher ~
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
~By Olof Palme ~
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
~By Thomas Day ~
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 ~
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
~By Robert Ballard ~
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 ~
The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
~By Alice Paul ~
My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.
~By Rick Allen ~
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
~By Hun Sen ~
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
~By Helene Deutsch ~
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 ~
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
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 ~
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
~By Michael McCaul ~
If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
~By Jon Stewart ~
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
~By Jack Herer ~
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
~By Lusia Strus ~
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
~By James Payn ~
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
~By Smedley Butler ~
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
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 ~
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
~By Ayn Rand ~
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.
~By Judith Light ~
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
~By John Linder ~
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
~By Richard Mentor Johnson ~
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
~By Kim Novak ~
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
~By James Madison ~
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
~By Ayn Rand ~
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
~By Mary Robinson ~
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
~By Lance Morrow ~
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
Where there are no rights, there are no duties.
~By Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque ~
The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
~By Leonard Peltier ~
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.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
~By Rob Bishop ~
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.
~By John L. Lewis ~
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
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 ~
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.
~By Curt Weldon ~
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~By Chief Joseph ~
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
~By George Bancroft ~
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
~By Patty Duke ~
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
~By Sojourner Truth ~
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
~By Megawati Sukarnoputri ~
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
~By Eugenie Anderson ~
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 ~
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
~By Johannes Rau ~
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.
~By James Inhofe ~
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
~By William Wells Brown ~
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