Rights Quotes

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

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.