As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
~By Rene Cassin ~
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
~By Linda Chavez ~
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
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 Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
~By Orville Redenbacher ~
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
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 ~
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 ~
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
~By Robert Menendez ~
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
~By Joseph L. Mankiewicz ~
In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.
~By Li Peng ~
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
~By William Wells Brown ~
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 ~
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
~By Giuseppe Mazzini ~
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
~By Paul Farmer ~
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
~By Joichi Ito ~
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
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 ~
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
~By Norman Granz ~
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 ~
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
~By Rory Bremner ~
I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
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.
~By Queen Victoria ~
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 ~
But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
~By Roy Moore ~
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
~By Eugenie Anderson ~
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 ~
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.
~By Michael McCaul ~
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 ~
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
~By Anna Lindh ~
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
~By Roy Moore ~
Where there are no rights, there are no duties.
~By Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque ~
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.
~By John H. Morgan ~
In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.
~By David Strathairn ~
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
~By Ralph Neas ~
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
~By Aaron McGruder ~
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
~By Jim Gibbons ~
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
~By Alan Autry ~
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
~By Robert Menendez ~
The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
~By Albert Gallatin ~
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
~By George Takei ~
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
~By Taslima Nasrin ~
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
~By Judith Light ~
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance.
~By Ron Davies ~
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
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 ~
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
~By Joichi Ito ~
As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
~By Norman Jewison ~
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.
~By Vito Fossella ~
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
~By Horace Greeley ~
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
~By Stephen Harper ~
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
~By Stjepan Mesic ~
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
~By William Weld ~
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
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 ~
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
~By Leland Stanford ~
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
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 ~
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
~By Robert Reich ~
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
~By F. Lee Bailey ~
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
~By John Yoo ~
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.
~By George William Norris ~
There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
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 support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.
~By Kelly Preston ~
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
~By Max Baucus ~
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
I don't believe gun owners have rights.
~By Sarah Brady ~
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 ~
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
~By Esther Dyson ~
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
~By Trent Lott ~
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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