Quotes About Rights

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

In Greece there is a very particular situation because on one hand the colonels took away everyone's political rights, but at the same time the economic and social situation improved.

There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel's Declaration of Independence grants all Israel's inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.

I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

A country can develop only when you ensure these basic rights, let them voice their opinion and give them basic education, hygiene, medication, portable water and when you empower that is true development.

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.