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Quotes About Rights

Hello, Davina. You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defence?
~ Derek Landy
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
~ Lucretia Mott
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
~ Rosa Parks
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
~ Jimmy Carter
We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.
~ Joshua Wong
I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.
~ Tony Dungy
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
~ H. L. Mencken
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.
~ Elizabeth Evatt
Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.
~ David Cottrell
Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.
~ Lucretia Mott
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~ Ayn Rand
Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
~ Vladimir Putin
Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
~ William Ernest Hocking
I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.
~ Alexei Navalny
It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights.
~ Steven Magee
Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.
~ Steven Magee
I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.
~ Steven Magee
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
~ Nathanael Greene
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
~ John Tyler
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.
~ Ramon Magsaysay
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
~ Michael Chabon