Quotes About Rights

Protests are part of our democracy.

Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.

If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

The new white Americans often invoked racial solidarity to claim their political and economic rights and surmount their religious, cultural, and linguistic differences from the established population. As America industrialized, white workingmen's associations were formed.

Those Russkies won't put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.

Ricos y pobres, parece que los estadounidenses ven la bancarrota como un «derecho inalienable», casi en igualdad de condiciones con «la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad».

Kindness is a temperamental caprice and we do not have the right to make others the victims of our caprice however humane or tender-hearted.

creo que el Estado es para los individuos, no los individuos para el Estado.

Nadie tiene derecho a condenar mi alma porque me gusten los toros

I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

The writer has no rights at all except those he forges for himself inside his own work. We have become so flooded with sorry fiction based on unearned liberties, or on the notion that fiction must represent the typical, that in the public mind the deeper kinds of realism are less and less understandable.

By becoming one of the poor who was deprived of his rights, by dying as one of those robbed of justice, God's Son submitted to the utmost extremity of humiliation, entering into total solidarity with those who are without help.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

Conservatives and individualists support policies that favor more freedom for individuals.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.