Quotes About Rights

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

A creature, considered as such, has no rights. He can demand nothing from his Maker; and in whatever manner he may be treated, has no title to complain.

Han podido las naciones, a no faltarles el juicio, conferir a los que hacen depositarios de sus derechos el de hacerlos constantemente desgraciados?

un Estado social y democrático de derecho, una democracia plena y avanzada.

Anybody, no matter who they were, could come right off the boat and get more rights and respect than amerikan-born Blacks.

Once you're in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don't want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions.

Judge Bachman

Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

As I began to give interviews and talks about my book "They Take Our Jobs!" And 20 Other Myths about Immigration, published in 2007, I became more and more convinced that a key, central issue that's hampering those of us who support immigrant rights is the absence of a basic, fundamental ability to say "immigrant rights are human rights." Immigration simply should not be illegal. No politician or talk-show commentator is going to risk saying this, but we have to.

So the real task is to equip the 'generalized other' with a 'common good' that puts everyone in the same position to understand his or her value for the community without restricting the autonomous realization of his or her self. In this kind of society, subjects with equal rights could mutually recognize their individual particularity by contributing in their own ways to the reproduction of the community's identity.

N?ks laiks, kad cilv?ki vairs nesm?n?s, kad vi?i saprat?s, ka rad?t?js gan nodevis dz?vnieku pasauli m?su ž?last?bai, bet ne m?su patva?ai: ka dz?vniekiem ir t?das pašas ties?bas uz dz?vi k? mums un ka m?su ties?bas laup?t vi?iem dz?v?bu ir stingri turamas m?su pašaizsardz?bas un eksistences ties?bu robež?s.

You who call yourselves liberals must understand that it is your way of life that is under threat. Withdraw my right to speak freely, and you jeopardize your own in the future. Ally yourselves with the Islamists at your peril. Tolerate their intolerance at your peril.

the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.

The shameful thing is that this campaign is effective in the West. Western liberals now seem to collude against critical thought and debate. I never cease to be amazed by the fact that non-Muslims who consider themselves liberals—including feminists and advocates of gay rights—are so readily persuaded by these crass means to take the Islamists' side against Muslim and non-Muslim critics.

Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture's intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women's rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't