Rights Awareness Quotes

Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and have a say about things such as if and where a power plant can be built.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of.

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

I never knew I had so many rights.

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

To be honest, sometimes you have to know your rights.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

You can’t just say you have rights. You have to use them to prove that you have them.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.