Quotes about Rights

State unit of BJP will protect the rights of Tamil Nadu people and we will not back off from our attempts to bring glory to Tamil language.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.