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I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family. -- Nita Ambani
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. -- John Wooden
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
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. -- Thomas Carlyle
I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space. -- Shirin Neshat
Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all. -- Ayn Rand
The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. -- C. S. Lewis
The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. -- Ron Pearce
My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights. -- Riz Ahmed
Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us. -- Mother Teresa
You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging"¦ They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights. -- Riz Ahmed
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy. -- Joel Bakan
I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint. -- Oswald Chambers
Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. -- Walt Whitman
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government. -- William Henry Harrison
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something that can be abrogated at its convenience. And that has diminished the measure of liberty within a society. -- Edward Snowden
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God. -- George W Truett
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others. -- African Spir
The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights. -- Richard M. Nixon
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. -- Nathaniel Branden
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle. -- Anthony Trollope
I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice. -- Brad Schneider
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. -- Alan Dershowitz
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. -- Henry Brooke
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. -- Steve Stockman
It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies. -- Gwen Moore
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. -- Ken Livingstone
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights. -- Louis Bacon
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women. -- Gabriel Byrne
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. -- Mary Frances Berry
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. -- Carl Schurz
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights. -- Alan Moore
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. -- Orson Pratt
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Attack another's rights and you destroy your own. -- John Jay Chapman
Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free. -- Ani DiFranco
My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. -- Hillary Clinton
Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world. -- Patricia Arquette
I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. -- Joel Madden
This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms. -- Ralph Klein
When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own. -- Glenn Greenwald
No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination. -- Daphne Merkin
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties. -- William J. H. Boetcker
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours -- Andrei Sakharov
Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal -- Elvis Costello
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights... -- Paulo Coelho
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. -- Lucy Stone
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. -- David Starr Jordan
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human." -- Suzanne La Follette
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. -- Laura Bush
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. -- Bianca Jagger
Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control. -- Kalle Lasn
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. -- Noam Chomsky
I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions. -- Hillary Clinton
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own? -- Wei Jingsheng
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests. -- Liya Kebede
One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home. -- Sachin Kundalkar
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities -- Mary Frances Berry
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts. -- Hun Sen
I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists. -- Donald Trump
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum. -- Adrian Cronauer
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores. -- Ronald Reagan
What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded. -- Bruce L. Shelley
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. -- Daisaku Ikeda
We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home. -- Jimmy Carter
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century. -- Jack Kemp
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. -- L. Ron Hubbard
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I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. -- Socrates
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
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights. -- Beverly Engel
Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country. -- Alan Keyes

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