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"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." »Ayn Rand
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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." »Clarence Thomas
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"The whole of the Bill of rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." »Albert Gallatin
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar" »Thomas Jefferson
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others." »William Jennings Bryan
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"The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million." »Eugene V. Debs
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"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." »Oscar Wilde
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." »Orson Welles
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"My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights." »Ronald Reagan
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"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." »Oscar Wilde
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"Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less." »Susan B. Anthony
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination." »Marquis de Sade
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"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done." »Lao Tzu
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"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence." »Bertrand Russell
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Don't let anyone tell you that you don't have rights, because no one has the right to say that." »Roman Lalich
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"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights." »John Wooden
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"Property has its duties as well as its rights." »Thomas Brummond
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"Equal rights were created for everyone." »contesant in 1990 Mr. New Jersey Male pageant
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"Atheism has no room for human rights." »U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin
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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%." »Thomas Jefferson
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"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others." »Ren G. Torres
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." »Kahlil Gibran
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