The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union. – John C. Calhoun
He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. – Jackie Kennedy
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination. – Joel Salatin
The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies. – Jonathan Sacks
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. – John Wooden
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. – James Bovard
I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves. – Jay Parini
I don’t know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made. – Bryan Burrough
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
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced. – Claire McCaskill
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. – Aung San Suu Kyi
The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals… It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. – Albert Gallatin
The women’s rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. – Constance Baker Motley
What’s happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. – Carlos Fuentes
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial. – Ali Khamenei
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books. – Bradley A. Smith
The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land. – Ariel Sharon
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries. – Ali Khamenei
In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship. – Avigdor Lieberman