Human rights quotes

“- Johnny 5: Fred wants to sell me?'!
- Fred Ritter: Oh, J-5, c'mon, it's just a figure of speech.
- Johnny 5: Am not property, Frederick! One whose person is under control of another as master, is a slave!
- Woman at building: That's all we need: A robot who's into equal rights.”
Tim Blaney - Johnny 5
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“What do I think of gay marriage? I believe gays have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us.”
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“I don't care to see a member of my own race getting above himself.”
Isabel Sanford - Tillie

“It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Will Smith - Christopher Gardner

“- Harold Lee: Can we have the right to make a phone call?
- Ron Fox: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. You want rights now. You want freedoms. Right now. Is it time? Is it freedom o'clock?”
John Cho - Harold Lee
Rob Corrdry - Ron Fox

“- Art Ridzik: About this pile-of-shit pimp in here. In this country, we try to protect the rights of individuals. It's called the Miranda Act, and it says that you can't even touch his ass.
- Ivan Danko: I do not want to touch his ass. I want to make him talk!”

Jim Belushi - Art Ridzik
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Ivan Danko

“Civil rights is one thing. This here is something else.”
Isabel Sanford - Tillie

“Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Stewart - Jefferson Smith

“- Chef: Haven't you heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?
- Army General: I don't listen to hip-hop.”

Isaac Hayes - Chef
Trey Parker - Army General

“This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. And the dead will be commemorated, and we'll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.”

Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“With a little money, we can help you get revenge. The assailant drew blood. Blood calls for revenge. Vengeance is a human right.”
Mourad Khima - Mourad

“Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?”
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard

“I'm supposed to read you your rights. But you're in Mooney's jail, and in Mooney's jail you ain't got no rights!”
John Vernon - Curtis Mooney

“- Alice Marano: I am an American citizen. I have a right to an attorney.
- Guard Velie: Oh, yes, and right to one telephone call, too.”
Claire Danes - Alice Marano
Beulah Quo - Guard Velie

“- Garth Pancake: The Freedom Riders were a group of concerned liberals from up north, all working together, just like we are here. Involved citizens who came down here so that local black folk could have their civil liberties. So that people like you could have the vote.
- Gawain MacSam: You know what, man? I don't vote. So fuck you.”
J. K. Simmons - Garth Pancake
Marlon Wayans - Gawain MacSam

“This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice.”
Nicole Kidman - Virginia Woolf

“- Paul Kersey: Do you always violate peoples constitutional rights?
- Richard Shriker: Well, this is my jail, Kersey, and I'm the law! That means I get to violate your constitutional rights!”
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey
Ed Lauter - Richard Shriker

“I stand for a strong and growing armed forces because we must stomp out genocide on this planet, and I believe that that is a cause worth dying for.”
Joan Allen - Laine Hanson

“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices.”
John Lawrence - Bearded Man

“- Markoff: You have to be strict with scum like that, sir.
- Lt. Martin: They're men. They have their rights, guaranteed within the regulations.”
Brian Donlevy - Markoff
Harvey Stephens - Lt. Martin

“Well, I didn't raise my kids to sit in the back of the bus. You get in there and you fight for your rights, okay?”
Joanne Woodward - Sarah Beckett

“- Aristos: There is a problem, Clement. The Council for Central American States has just concluded its meetings in Costa Rica.
- Claire: Hypocrites. Every government represented condems my brother publicly and then welcomes him privately.
- Aristos: They have called for another meeting and study of human rights violations.
- Molloch: Human...” (continue)(continue reading)
Enrique Lucero - Aristos
Antoinette Bower - Claire
Joseph Maher - Molloch

“The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves, that gave women the right to vote, that gave us every freedom that we hold dear.”
Joan Allen - Laine Hanson

“- Ward: Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated!
- Anderson: Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward.
- Ward: Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson!
- Anderson: These people are crawling out of the sewer, Mr. Ward! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!”
Willem Dafoe - Ward
Gene Hackman - Anderson