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Quotes About Rights

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.
~ David Duke
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
~ Ai Weiwei
People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.
~ Demetri Martin
What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
~ Barbara Gittings
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.
~ Robert H. Jackson
If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.
~ Charley Reese
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~ Salman Rushdie
I think everybody has the right to a private life.
~ Keira Knightley
The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.
~ Pope Francis
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
~ Jack Kevorkian
We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
~ Barack Obama
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
~ Leon Kass
I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
~ Wendell Willkie
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
~ Betty Ford
Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
~ David Boaz
The right to life is the first among human rights.
~ Pope Francis
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
~ Chester Himes
Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
From real laws come real rights; but from imaginary laws, from laws of nature, fancied and invented by poets, rhetoricians, and dealers in moral and intellectual poisons, come imaginary rights, a bastard brood of monsters.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
Any law which runs counter to the good of man is no law at all.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Heliodorus, tells me that there are many parts of the Scriptures which you seek and cannot find. But even if you have them all, affection is sure to assert its rights and to seek for itself more than it already has.
~ Jerome