Rights Quotations..

• I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
  Jim Cramer # Belief, Rich, Money, Success, Wealth, Human Rights, Help, Inspirational Quotes
• What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
  Joschka Fischer # Globalization, World, Equality, Education, Job, Human Rights Quotes
• I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.
  John Howard # Human Rights, People, Thinking Quotes
• I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life...
  John Howard # Freedom, Human Rights, Life, Important Quotes
• China will continue to build up democracy with its own characteristics and improve its people's human rights based on the actual situation and the aspiration of the people.
  Hu Jintao # Democracy, Improvement, Society, Human Rights Quotes
• We should respect the right of all countries to independently choose their own development paths, promote greater dialogue and exchanges among civilizations in the spirit of democracy and equality.
  Hu Jintao # Respect, Rights, Development, Dialogue, Democracy, Equality Quotes
• Although i speak from my own experience, i feel that no one has the right to impose his or her beliefs on another person.
  Dalai Lama # Experience, Human Rights, Belief, Ethics, Identity Quotes
• We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
  Bill Maher # Human Rights, Responsibility Quotes
• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
  Barack Obama # Peace, Conflict, Human Rights Quotes
• Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
  Pope John Paul II # Freedom, Human Rights Quotes
• You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines--use your life and get back into the game.
  Dr.Phil # Life, Self Help, Action, Enjoyment, Rights, Motivational Quotes
• When it comes to labour market reform, here's the difference between us and John Howard: John Howard regards labour as just like any other economic commodity. We actually see labour as made up of human beings. These are human beings with an intrinsic dignity. When they go to the workplace, they're not just like a lump of wood or a piece of coal, these are human beings, and they should be treated properly as people with intrinsic rights.
  Kevin Rudd # Reform, Different, Politicians, Labour, Economic, Human, Change, Human Rights Quotes
• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
  Nicolas Sarkozy # Success, Human Rights, Politics, Challenging, Government Quotes
• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
  Desmond Tutu # Racist, Human Rights Quotes
• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
  Malcolm X # Belief, Human Rights, Respect, Racism Quotes
• We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary .
  Malcolm X # Respect, Human Rights Quotes
• You can’t drive a knife into a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress.
  Malcolm X # Black, Human Rights, Racist, Progress Quotes

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