Quotes and Sayings About Rights
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
-- A. B. Simpson -
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
-- A. J. Jacobs -
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
-- A. Powell Davies -
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.
-- A.C. Grayling -
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
-- A.J. Ayer -
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
-- Abbie Cornish -
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
-- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
-- Abe Fortas -
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COULD LEARN WHAT I KNOW OF THE FIERCE HATRED OF THE PRIESTS OF ROME AGAINST OUR INSTITUTIONS, OUR SCHOOLS, OUR MOST SACRED RIGHTS, AND OUR SO DEARLY BOUGHT LIBERTIES, THEY WOULD DRIVE THEM OUT AS TRAITORS!
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.
-- Adam Bandt -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
-- Adam Lambert -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
-- Adam Selzer -
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
-- Adora Svitak -
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
-- African Spir -
Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
-- Ai Weiwei -
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
-- Ai Weiwei -
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
-- Akbar Ganji -
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act,
-- Akbar Ganji -
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.
-- Al Capp -
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
-- Al Franken
