Quotes About Rights

Black Americans have organized all across this country because we have an unequal justice system, not because anyone demands special privileges.

It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

Working for over 12 hours, 30 days a month and being paid after 90 days, and in many cases even more than that, isn't only unethical but is against working laws.

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

It seems very unfair that people cannot have adequate health care.

The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination and ensured that Britain is one of the safest places in the world in which to go to work.

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person's freedom.

It's not possible that women can be at par with men.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.