Knowing Your Rights Quotes

#1. Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest signs, standing up to the Man, and knowing your rights. She was talking about her life. Just her. Not the people.

Rita Williams-Garcia

#2. Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

Matthew Stewart

#3. What constitutes a state? ... Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ... And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

#4. You can respect a man's rights or opinions without knowing the man at all. But you can only respect the man himself when you find something in him that's worthy of the word.

Gregory David Roberts

#5. Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

DaShanne Stokes

#6. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

Barney Frank

#7. The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.

Janelle Gray

#8. No one wants to be in the dark forever; just happens that most of us aren't strong enough to find the light switch.

Jalena Dunphy

#9. The mind is a garden of imagination;
thoughts are the plants of creation.

Debasish Mridha

#10. And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.

Regina King

#11. He'd started falling for her the moment she walked into Devil's Dip Gym. She'd KO'd him and there was no going back.

Avery Flynn

#12. A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.

Robert Zuppke

#13. Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Benjamin Rush

#14. The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Maya Angelou

#16. Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

Andrew Aydin

#17. Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell.

P. J. O'Rourke