Quotes About Rights

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

You cannot separate peace and freedom .Because noone can be at peace unless he has his freedom .

If something is yours by right, then fight for it or shut up.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave.

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

I'm not a diner until you let me dine

Todos los derechos son importantes, pero, si nos amputasen el derecho a soñar, perderíamos todo el resto.

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a right to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed;

The idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a government which respects most of all, the freedom of the governed.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time