Rights Quotes

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. - Pasquier Quesnel

You've got to see that this Justice Department keeps chipping away at our rights. The American people are so ill-informed that that they don't realize what's going on. And they won't until it's too late. - Larry Flynt

You're talking about a football fight versus a fight for the seat on the bus. There's no comparison. People were dying in the era where you were fighting for rights, fighting for a voice. But I do think his enthusiasm, the fire in his heart, was homegrown. - Troy Vincent

Young people think broadly about voting rights or economic rights but don't understand how individuals were affected by voting rights. The right to vote was to get people out of office who would bring on segregation. - Dean Rowley

Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century? - Lennox Yearwood

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. - Paul Robeson

You want Romney and a small government, but how does making abortion illegal and controlling people's rights represent that? - Unknown

You run smack dab into the conflict between protecting the safety of children versus protecting the rights of the innocent. Those two things are a perfect storm of conflict. The safety of children should trump, but we don't have the mechanism in place to make that happen. - Laura Benson

You never like to hear about any reports of this nature. The Iraqi police need to uphold the highest human rights standards that is expected by the international community. That's what the United States is committed to. The Iraqi training is ongoing and that will continue to be one of the highest priorities. - Trent Duffy