All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people. – Aung San Suu Kyi
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. – Boris Yeltsin
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans. – Benjamin Todd Jealous
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. – Andrew Vachss
The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families. – Alan Wilson
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected. – Benjamin Todd Jealous
By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. – Carol Bellamy
Those in the developing world have so few rights – we take a lot for granted in the developed world. – Annie Lennox
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. – Bianca Jagger
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights – compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market. – Cynthia McKinney
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi – that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. – Auberon Herbert
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. – Chuck Schumer
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. – Adam Ferguson
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
I don’t have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don’t have the slightest doubt about human rights. – Antonio Tabucchi
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. – Caleb Cushing
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
On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate. – Basmah bint Saud
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children. – Carol Bellamy
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. – Ali Khamenei