rights Quotes

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.

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

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

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

My belief in human rights includes a fundamental principle that is written into Article 1 of the UN Charter: respect for equal rights and self-determination.

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

Rights are in the power of the people.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

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