Top 100 Rights For Quotes
#1. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#2. My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.
Hillary Clinton
#3. Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.
Edward Snowden
#4. I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
Bryan Burrough
#5. Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.
Jerry Falwell
#6. There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#7. If you believe in equal rights, then what do "women's rights," "gay rights," etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
Thomas Sowell
#8. Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
Nadezhda Krupskaya
#9. It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.
Jimmy Carter
#10. I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.
Malcolm X
#11. Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that.
Justin Baldoni
#12. The Civil War won formal rights for Negroes, but failed to win social justice and factual democracy. The actual result has been segregation, and fear and ignorance for both whites and blacks.
Paul Goodman
#13. Progressivism is an active channel for social equity, social liberalism, and political rights for all people.
Henry Johnson Jr
#14. The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.
Vladimir Lenin
#15. The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
Evo Morales
#16. The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
Qiu Jin
#17. Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.
Romeo Dallaire
#18. We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women
Sima Samar
#19. I will always work for human rights for all people.
Rosa Parks
#20. Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Francoise Giroud
#21. Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
David Korten
#22. Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
J.M. Coetzee
#23. I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
Harry S. Truman
#24. The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
Robin Gross
#25. Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
Derrick Bell
#26. Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.
Phil Schiller
#27. I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
Alan Chambers
#28. We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.
Jackie Huggins
#29. The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
Faye Wattleton
#30. We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
Bella Abzug
#31. We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
Jay Parini
#32. Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.
Kathe Kollwitz
#34. The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.
Valerie Jarrett
#35. In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri
#36. The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
Irene Khan
#37. It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
Major Owens
#38. I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Ban Ki-moon
#39. Telugu-Tamil producer Thyagarajan has bought the South Indian language rights for two Hindi hit films, Vikas Behl's 'Queen' and Neeraj Pandey's 'Special 26.' He wants me to play Akshay Kumar's role in the Telugu version of 'Special 26.' Akshay and I even look similar, physique-wise.
Ravi Teja
#40. Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
Benjamin F. Wade
#41. The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.
Suzanne La Follette
#42. It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.
Louie Gohmert
#43. I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests.
Mike Adams
#44. You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that, female jobs such as feeding husband and children be considered as valuable as male jobs.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#45. the intolerance of reproductive rights for women puts the rights of potential humans above the rights of actual living, breathing humans.
Cooper S. Beckett
#46. The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#47. I heard something once. I heard a slogan and it stuck in my head. I heard 'Equal rights for all; special privileges for none' and to me it didn't mean anything but what it said.
Harper Lee
#48. Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Harper Lee
#49. Fundamentalists tell us to fear the specter of special rights for gay citizens, though of course gay Americans aren't after special rights - merely equal rights. The irony is that special rights actually do exist in this country-for religious groups.
Sean Faircloth
#50. In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison
#51. I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
Louise Mensch
#52. We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.
Barack Obama
#53. I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
Tony Campolo
#54. 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.
Mike McCurry
#55. As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
Norman Jewison
#56. True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
Desmond Tutu
#57. And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
Roy Moore
#58. Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.
Stephen Kinzer
#59. Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
Andy Rooney
#60. Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.
Ken Mehlman
#61. It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Cassandra Clare
#62. He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.
John Stuart Mill
#63. In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
Oscar Wilde
#64. During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
Karen DeCrow
#65. Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
Desmond Tutu
#66. To all those who struggle for human rights for LGTB people
Eli Easton
#67. My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.
Casey Wilson
#68. The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Dionne Warwick
#69. Human rights for everybody, there is no difference.
Live on! And be yourself!
Macklemore
#70. Well, I think I'm a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.
Daniel Radcliffe
#71. When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.
Pervez Musharraf
#72. Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.
Hillary Clinton
#73. The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
Betty Buckley
#74. It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
#75. I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.
Roseanne Barr
#76. I didn't have song rights for the first video because I didn't know that it was going to do what it did. So for the second video, I decided better safe than sorry. It is a really gray area as to whether or not you even need song rights to make a video like that.
Judson Laipply
#77. Medical Marijuana Deserves Equal Rights. Equal Rights For Consumers And Equal Rights For Businesses. In The Meantime, Read My Book And Get On The Map For Your Best Investment.
Jay Hidoshi
#78. I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
Evita Peron
#79. I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#80. Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I think anything's possible. If I don't help the women in Afghanistan, they won't be around to help me.
Cheryl Benard Quoting Lorrie
#81. Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the top 100 wealthiest people in the UK, please send cheques or Postal Orders to me care of my publisher.
James Berryman
#82. There are three kinds of Peers; the one who did the shitty job for upper-castes, the one who sold their rights for upper-castes's entertaintment, and the one who is going to bring the upper-castes down."
"Which one is you?"
"Apparently, all three of them.
Rea Lidde
#83. I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone
Sean Penn
#84. While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#85. I have finally reverted the publishing rights for my Cocoon Trilogy back to me and, for the first time, e-published the final book - Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children. Cocoon, the movie and the book, was only the beginning.
David Saperstein
#86. Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.
William Greider
#87. For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.
Ayn Rand
#88. Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
Michael Douglas
#89. Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
Tran Duc Luong
#90. I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.
Sara Ramirez
#91. Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.
Corin Tucker
#92. Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.
Nathan Deal
#93. The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
Paul Farmer
#94. The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
Jon Meacham
#95. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
Ernest Cline
#96. The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.
Mohsin Hamid
#97. That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.
Van Jones
#98. The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount ... If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
Harry Truman
#99. Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
Chad Hurley
#100. It is too easy in this country for blessings to become rights, for stuff and money to become what calls the shots in our lives. And before we know it, God's gifts have replaced God himself.
Jennie Allen
