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Quotes About Rights

The government announced that never again will this country allow such a 'lapse in humanity to poison us and strip people of their basic human rights.' Everybody looks back and wonders how we allowed it to happen in the first place. It all seems so simple now.
~ Cecelia Ahern
You got no right being in my head. That's..trespassing
~ Charlaine Harris
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
~ Charlaine Harris
At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American
~ Charlaine Harris
There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
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
I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.
~ Miranda Lambert
I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.
~ Mitt Romney
When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
In Iran, education is not a given at all. For decades, in fact, the Iranian government has been systematically depriving members of the Baha'i faith their right to higher education, attempting to bar their advancement and marginalize them in Iranian society.
~ Penn Badgley
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
~ Gail Collins
We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the E.U. should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership?
~ Theresa May
Union membership should not be a condition for employment, and workers should have the freedom to exercise their right to determine how their hard-earned money is spent.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
There is no justice among men.
~ Nicholas II of Russia
That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
~ Barbara Castle
I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.
~ Satya Nadella
Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It's hard to argue with that.
~ Joanna Coles
Being a feminist means asking for equality. But people take it the other way at times. It is looked down upon is because it is seen as man-hating. But, feminism is a really crazy idea that suggests men and women are equal.
~ Kalki Koechlin
I want to live in a Britain where there is a shared belief in freedom and democracy, and equal rights for men and women.
~ Andrea Leadsom
Feminism basically says both men and women are equal. It doesn't say women are better or men are stupid.
~ Richa Chadha
Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.
~ Sarah Brady
Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.
~ Hozier
The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
~ Gloria Steinem