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Quotes About Rights

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
~ George Eliot
Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.
~ Michael Moore
Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
~ Mike Huckabee
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
~ Pope John Paul II
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
~ Ilana Mercer
Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
~ Maura Tierney
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
~ Maya Angelou
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
~ Catherine Deneuve
If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.
~ Michael Badnarik
My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.
~ Pauley Perrette
Liberty is life; slavery is death.
~ Alexandre Vinet
We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.
~ Barack Obama
I believe that everyone has the right to live a happy and healthy life.
~ Chris Powell
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I remember seeing an abstract of his rights once, and someone had actually thought of a clause that said the intensity of the musical fanfare, under Roddenberry's on-screen credit, could be no less than that of the musical fanfare when Shatner's name was on the screen.
~ Edward Gross
In republican Government the majority however composed, ultimately give the law," he wrote in his memorandum and implied in his letters, and "what is to restrain them from unjust violations of the rights and interests of the minority, or of individuals?
~ Edward J. Larson
I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
~ Edward Koch
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
~ Edward Koch
The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That's the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Free societies do not restructure the rights, that the public is entitled to, for the convenience of spies and police.
~ Edward Snowden
A notion and recognition of human equality indeed enlighten humanity significantly, which builds and strengthens a bridge of justice, rights, respect, and harmony in society; otherwise, distinctive perception and injustice prevail.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
All or certain human rights, and such others, become restricted and invalid whenever the duties and discipline of institutions overrule and prevail.
~ Ehsan Sehgal