Quotes About Rights

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.