Angela Merkel Quotes

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.

No right dies so long as someone demands it.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Equal Rights

The law expresses the values and aspirations of our society.