Quotes About Rights

We fight people daily for respect, for our rights and for our dignity.

I support equal rights and equal dignity for all.

Like all women, I am entitled to be treated with dignity and respect at work.

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women had a role, a duty. When they want to have a say in government - though in Africa they are not expected to do that - they are not discouraged. They can do what they want to do.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

'Article 15' prohibits any kind of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. My film is about the discrimination we practice on various levels.

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race.

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Pay disparity has always been there.

As revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the voice of the people.

Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.