Rights Violation Quotes

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people … the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.

if any government does not acknowledge the rights of the human person or violates them, it not only fails in its duty, but its orders completely lack juridical force

... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.

You can't build a new society by violating the rights of others.

Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject.

After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about that from experience.

Not a single time have we gotten our rights from Congress or the President, we get them from God. And when He gives us those rights, He puts a warning bell inside of us. When somebody tries to take them, a warning bell goes off. And that's what America is feeling right now.

Voting discrimination still exists. Nobody doubts that.