Quotes About Rights

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment. I had a feeling for them, an intuition, a sense of repugnance for some situations and some people, but I did not know intuition and repugnance counted, did not know I had a right not to like, not to have to put up with, anybody and everybody coming near.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class -- it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

But what is "public property" if not an oxymoron?

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Suffrage didn't mean equal opportunity.

If you have property, you can't be property.

I remember abortion being legal in the United States

She [Judith Butler] specifies the ways in which the logic of identity politics—which is to gather together similar subjects so that they can achieve shared aims by mobilising a minority-rights discourse—is far from natural or self-evident. Michael Warner makes a similar point about the cultural specificity of identity politics when observing that, because its 'frame ... belongs to Anglo-American traditions', it therefore 'has some distorting influences'.

Unless that elite soon comes to recognize the value and the importance of all of Russia's citizens, to honor both their civil and their human rights, Russia is ultimately fated to become today's northern Zaire, a land populated by impoverished peasants and billionaire politicians who keep their assets in Swiss bank vaults and their private jets on runways, engines running. Tragically

Having right over others is something shameful. It's using force.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

She was not engaging in any broad or sweeping challenge when she insisted that her own status be acknowledged as not only "equal" to that of any comparable male scientist, but to be quite indistinguishable as well, because to her the emphasis was solely upon scientist, not upon the adjective. She was not declaring war on behalf of women's rights, but demanding on behalf of science that those who served it be judged solely and wholly upon their abilities.

Everyone has the right to live her own life, NO parent can destroy the youth and joy of their child. They use all kinds of excuses to try and cover their selfishness but if the daughter or son do take the bit in their teeth and LIVE the mother always gets on allright.

Sólo sufres en proporción al daño que tú mismo te haces, a título personal, o el que recibes de los demás concediéndoles el derecho de hacértelo.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

Aver vissuto una cosa, qualsiasi cosa, conferisce il diritto inalienabile di scriverla. Non ci sono verità inferiori.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.