Rights Quotes - Page 63

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change requires that we ask no less of our leaders, or ourselves.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.