Rights Quotes

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.

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.

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.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

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.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

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.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.