Quotes About Rights

Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for the rights of all Iraqis.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.