Quotes About Rights

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.