Quotes About Rights

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

Wherever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins"—John Locke.

This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.

You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!

What was freedom worth without safety from injustice, violence and hunger? Freedom to do what?

One person's ideals sometimes endanger someone else's privileges.

And now we stand again on the cusp of an atheistic age—an age where the Christian faith is losing its hold, as paganism once lost its hold, and the new humanism, the belief in man and his accomplishments and his rights, is more powerful than ever before.

Freedom's easy to lose and hard to get back.