Rights Quotes - Page 104

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.