Quotes About Rights

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Our country, the noblest country in the history of men, was based on the principle of individualism, the principle of man's "inalienable rights." It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness, to gain and produce; not to give up and renounce; to prosper, not to starve; to achieve, not to plunder; to hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value, and as his highest virtue his self-respect.

Our nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to protecting the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the individual, not of the collective or groups of special interests. The miracle of the Constitution is the simple genius of limited government and its singular devotion to protecting individual liberty.

THE SECOND MAJOR THEME running through the Tea Party movement is the call for personal responsibility. The founding documents built institutions that allowed for individuals to chase their dreams and be responsible for their own successes and failures. Tea Partiers value equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. For us, it is all about the rights of the individual over the collective.

Cosas como esa sucedían todo el tiempo, pero una se callaba. En esa época no era como ahora, las mujeres no tenían ningún derecho… Los que hacían la ley eran los hombres". A los dieciséis o diecisiete años ya sabía lo que son y lo que valen los hombres, y cuando se casó lo hizo sin grandes ilusiones sobre ellos en general y sobre el que esposaría en particular.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ?u ga satreti, moja je li?na stvar.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Outside half a dozen youthful demonstrators chanted about the rights of the 'young unemployed'. The Prime Minister excepted, they were the best dressed people in West Torrens. There is no disguising a Young Liberal's haircut.

The NRA assholes will tell you that "guns don't kill people, people do." Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.

Los gilipollas de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle te dirán que «no matan las armas, sino las personas». Sí, piensa Malone, las personas que van armadas. (...) Ellos esgrimen la Segunda Enmienda y los derechos individuales, pero es una cuestión de dinero. Los fabricantes de armas, que suponen el grueso de la financiación de la ANR, quieren vender armas y ganar pasta. Fin de la puta historia.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

Whose life is it, anyway?

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.