Quotes about Rights

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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing — Ma Jun
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind. — Corey Feldman
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined — Lawrence Kohlberg
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. — Ayn Rand
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B. F. Skinner
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a d — Stephen Harper
Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy — Kapil Sibal
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got t — Charles T. Canady
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to interve — Michael K. Simpson
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I — Caleb Cushing
In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie — Jan de Bont
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded o — Dick Durbin
Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, yo — Harvey Mason, Jr.
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whateve — Alan Siegel
There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have bee — Neil Harbisson
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year. — Ed Lee
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by — Jonathan Sacks
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that i — Pope Benedict XVI
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells