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Quotes About Rights

If you can't afford housing then the right to vote is a bad joke.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Freedom in an injust system is no freedom at all.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Da giovane è facile credere che ciò che desideri sia ciò che ti meriti, è facile convincersi che se davvero vuoi qualcosa, è tuo sacrosanto diritto ottenerla.
~ Krakauer Jon
If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?
~ Mike Gabbard
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
~ Louis de Bernieres
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.
~ Walter E. Williams
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.
~ Robert H. Jackson
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
~ Malcolm X
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
~ Thomas Jefferson
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
~ Desmond Tutu
Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.
~ Haj Amin al-Husseini
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
~ Sam Ervin
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
~ Pope Pius IX
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
~ Richard Stallman
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
~ Henry Clay
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
~ Sam Ervin
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
~ A. Powell Davies
Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.
~ Rick Perry
We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.
~ Martin Schulz
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
~ C. S. Lewis
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.
~ Ibn Warraq
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
~ Christopher Hitchens