Quotes About Rights

If you feel strongly about something and you want to voice your opinion, I feel it's your right, so, that's how I look at it because that's how life is.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

In 1775 the Congress had called slaves "domestic enemies," tacitly reproducing the long-refuted argument that slavery was the right of the victor in war.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

No fetters in the Bay State—no slave upon our land!

The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.

The protection of rights is inevitable if preservation of dignity is valued.

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

He said he would die an educated man if he didn't live long enough to die as a free one.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

People often say that shareholders 'own' the company. They don't, as you will find out if you turn up at Apple's spectacular new headquarters campus at Cupertino or Berkshire's small office suite in Omaha, Nebraska, to assert your 'ownership'. What shareholders own is their shares, and ownership of shares confers a variety of rights. The value of a share is the value of these rights.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

We have always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

Weve always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.