Quotes About Rights

It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders.

We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for consumers, commuters and investors is possible. Enshrining these rights into law would mean that any future government which wanted to reverse this would have to go through the primary legislative process.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law - even the prime minister - and no one, not even him, is above it.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted in the bedrock principle of freedom, including the right to free expression.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.