The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights. - Janet Napolitano
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever. - Joseph Priestley
Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security. - Allyson Schwartz
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake. - Patricia Highsmith
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. - Georges Bernanos
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890. - Charles Tupper
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. - Diane Watson
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994. - Rory Bremner
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial. - Ali Hoseini Khamenei
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. - Giuseppe Mazzini
Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance. - Ron Davies
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms. - Stjepan Mesic
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. - Maximilien Robespierre
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes. - Melissa Bean
We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty. - Jose de Diego
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. - Gerrit Smith
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. - Thomas Jefferson
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. - Aung San Suu Kyi
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. - Ed Markey