Rights Quotes

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

The Constitution exists to protect rights, not undermine them.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

This prize carries the message that Europe intends to put further pressure on human rights issues in Iran as a political move to achieve its particular objectives.

The Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples sets minimum standards for how we will be treated. We are trying to convince Canada that there is a better way to treat Indian people, and we have to use the principles in the declaration as a guideline in our relationship.

[Erdmann argued that, in proclaiming the First Crusade, Pope Urban II was less interested in restoring the rights of Christians to make pilgrimages to the Holy Sepulchre than in unleashing] an ecclesiastical-knightly war upon heathens ... the conceptual change from armed pilgrim to soldier for the faith took place.