Quotes About Rights

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...

Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.

The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

Mum, " she frowned "if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why can't one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.