Quotes About Rights

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I am opposed to 'right to work' legislation because it does nothing for working people, but instead gives employers the right to exploit labor.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

To respect one's fellow men is perhaps more difficult than to 'love' them in a wide, vague sense. In fact, it is possible that to feel respect for mankind is better than to feel love for it. Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

If democracy is destroyed in Britain it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.

People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it cant return even if it wants to.

The upshot is that new rights cannot be suddenly "discovered" years later in a document, unless everyone affected by the document had somehow overlooked an applicable provision that was there all along.

A brave is only that person who fights merely for the good people's rights against the knave.

A person who is an ethically right has to only fight for own rights against the big battalion of the population, but one is wrong morally can go easily long in relationship with the billions of people.

I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone's selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.

A man's rights are not merely decorations or ends in themselves. They are opportunities, instruments, trusts. And when any man has them, it means that he is placed on a vantage-ground from which, secure of oppression or interference, he may begin to do his duty.[

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

A participation in rights and advantages forms the bond of political society; an institution prior, in the intention of nature, to the families and individuals from whom it is constituted.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.