Rights Issues Quotes

Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

A right delayed is a right denied.

People have a right to certain non-negotiable demands of human dignity.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

… a social right

Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.

I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'