Rights Abuse Quotes

Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.

I refuse to allow human rights to become a slogan to protect terrorists.

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.

Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against privilege they are thrown overboard.

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them for a century.

Every banana republic has a Bill of Rights. Every President for Life had a Bill of Rights.

You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something that can be abrogated at its convenience. And that has diminished the measure of liberty within a society.

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.