Quotes About Rights

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.

Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.

I'm standing for real freedom.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.