Rights Quotes - Page 145

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.

For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.

I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.

Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.