Quotes About Rights

The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That's what we have lived. It's easier to tell a poor person, 'You know what, you are poor, you're hungry because the other one has taken away your rights.'

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

BJP is ready to go to any extent to protest for the rights of Ayyappa devotees. Beliefs should be respected. Man-woman equality is must, but gender equality cannot be established by giving entry to men and women together. There are several temples that deny men entry.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

É dispensável dizer que, na falta do direito de exercer oposição, o direito de "participar" é despido de boa parte do significado que tem num país onde existe a contestação pública. '' P. 25 ''Consideremos, então, a democratização como formada por pelo menos duas dimensões: contestação pública e direito de participação'' P.26

Warum ist eigentlich das demokratische System besser?... Es ist besser, weil es die volle Entwicklung des Menschen als Individuum möglich macht. Aber... das zeigt nur, daß die Demokratie eine >angenehmere< Form der Regierung ist [...].

The right to free speech does not give you the liberty to talk slander

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

Naive as a child in many ways, unfamiliar with the sophistry of civilization, he was naturally intelligent, jealous of his rights, and dangerous as a hungry tiger.

This war is not about slavery.

Cada guerra que ha estallado a partir de 1945 ha dado pie a una gran cantidad de legislación y a la creación de más grupos de derechos humanos para presionar al mundo sobre valores occidentales humanísticos

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

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

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.