I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
Lech Walesa

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Lech Walesa

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
Edward Koch

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.
Clarence Thomas

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Clarence Thomas

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
Clarence Thomas

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
Saddam Hussein

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Richard Stallman

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri

And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.
Jon Porter

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
Danny Glover

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.
Peter Krause

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Anthony Trollope

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
George Bancroft

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
Theodore Bikel