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Quotes About Birthright

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
~ Josh Billings
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
~ Melissa Etheridge
there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.
~ Unknown
Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
~ Luke Scott
You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth - Abundance is your birthright.
~ Lynn A. Robinson
The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I'm not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.
~ Lynne Tillman
I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birthright. Stay here, my boy, and with the conversation of mankind. rejoice in the light.
~ Unknown
Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.
~ Madeline Miller
No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.
~ John Milton
but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours- being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.
~ John Steinbeck
Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.
~ John Steinbeck
We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours--being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.
~ John Steinbeck
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
~ David Lloyd George
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
~ Joseph Sobran
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
~ Michael Anti
Although we read of occasional Romans, usually the 'bad' ones in these stories, complaining that foreigners or the low-born are taking away their birthright, the overall message is unmistakeable: even at the very pinnacle of the Roman political order, 'Romans' could come from elsewhere; and those born low, even ex-slaves, could rise to the top.
~ Mary Beard
Although we read of occasional Romans, usually the 'bad' ones in these stories, complaining that foreigners or the low-born are taking away their birthright, the overall message is unmistakeable: even at the very pinnacle of the Roman political order, 'Romans' could come from elsewhere; and those born low, even ex-slaves, could rise to the top. Rome
~ Mary Beard
The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.
~ Unknown
You don't have to continually im prove yourself to love yourself. Love is not something you de serve only if you reach a goal. The world is one of pressure but don't let it squeeze your self compassion. You were born wor thy of love and you remain wor thy of love. Be kind to yourself.
~ Matt Haig
He is the son of an anointed and consecrated king, begotten on a lawful wife while he was still king.
~ Unknown
It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.
~ Meher Baba
How is it possible that we should need money to live on a planet that we were born on? Like many others before me I realised that we are born into pure slavery.
~ Unknown
The main thrust of Burr's argument was that citizenship came from consent. Drawing on his favorite writer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Burr defended the basic premise of the social contract: citizens were not born, but made, through their participation in civil society. Gallatin
~ Unknown