Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
ReligionCivilizationHumanRights
I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.
Lee Kuan Yew
HumanRightsHuman RightsWatchSays
Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
Noam Chomsky
FightPeopleYouKnowWorstRights
My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.
Shinzo Abe
HopeEndWillHumanFirstRights
Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.
James Bovard
WaveSeeingPartyMoreAirRights
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
Rene Cassin
CharacterBeginningHumanRights
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
Tommy Shaw
YouWillRightsSignYourCompetent
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
Kathleen Sebelius
VotingCongressRightsActLaws
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
ManLandOverRightsWhoShould
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
Tom G. Palmer
DifferencesRightsNormalDifferent
Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
Isaac Hanson
ArtistManagerWillFirstRights
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.
Marquis de Lafayette
AmericaCountryCitizenPoorRights
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
Rodrigo Duterte
WorkDignityHumanRightsUplift
The Islamic Republic has never sought tension in the region and does not want any trouble in global waterways, but it will not easily give up on its rights to export oil.
Hassan Rouhani
TroubleWantWillOilNeverRights
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
Lysander Spooner
SayingSayRightRightsRuleAllow
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan
GovernmentRightsIndividualUsOnly
I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.
Caster Semenya
WayRightsAthleticsPut
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
Kenya Barris
MeMomNameCivil RightsRights
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
Roy Moore
GodManGovernmentYouRightsTake
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
YouRightsPropertyOwnNatural
What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
PeopleThinkUnderstandTurnRights
The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.
Michael Scheuer
RightsWithinFoundHeUseHis
I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
Edward Brooke
LeaderI AmCivil RightsRightsAm
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Jane Mayer
ScienceHumanCriticsRightsWell
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