Quotes About Rights

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Es gibt etwas Wichtigeres als politische Freiheit, und politische Rechte sind ein Mittel, kein Selbstzweck. Ihr Zweck ist Sicherheit für Leben und Eigentum, und diese Sicherheit konnte durch die Verfassung im republikanischen Rom nicht garantiert werden. Das durch Bürgerkriege und Unruhen verbrauchte und gebrochene römische Volk war bereit, das zerstörerische Privileg der Freiheit aufzugeben und sich wie am Anfang der Zeiten einer strengen Regierung unterzuordnen.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on "acquired rights" but on real economic relations – the fact that wage labor is not a judicial relation, but purely an economic relation… How can wage slavery be suppressed by the "legislative way", if wage slavery is not expressed [by] the laws?

from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden)

Democracy is indispensable to the working class, because only through the exercise of its democratic rights, in the struggle for democracy, can the proletariat become aware of its class interests and its historic task.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American soldiers werre returning from World War Iasn acting as if they deserved equal rights because they had served their country.

Ada Deer's recent memoir, Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

Marshall vested absolute title to the land in the government and gave Indians nothing more than the right of occupancy, a right that could be taken away at any time.

L'amour c'est comme l'alcool, plus on est impuissant et saoul et plus on se croit fort et malin, et sûr de ses droits.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Dizer que a minha liberdade termina onde começa a liberdade do outro é muito bonito. Mas e se a liberdade foi mal distribuída e o meu vizinho tem um latifúndio de liberdade enquanto a minha é um quintal de liberdade, liberdade mesmo que tadinha? Não é feio sugerir um reestudo da divisão.

And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said what it was. Possibly, to many of them, all it meant was the right to have money. Or get more of it.

a feud over who was to own the poet: in the first instance, who was to have the right to publish her works; in the second, whose legend would imprint itself on the public mind.

Não nos dispersaremos. Se quereis os nossos cadáveres, podeis tomá-los; mas só os cadáveres; não levareis a nossa honra, o nosso crédito, os nossos direitos, e com eles a salvação de Itaguaí.