Quotes About Rights

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

If you want to boo, that's your right. Boo. Go ahead. Boo me all day long.

All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

To be fair, restaurant culture has always been about bragging rights - such is the elitist nature of food. It's just that social media makes it that much easier for everyone to play the game.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.

If Australia and England are finding it difficult to sell their broadcasting rights you can't blame BCCI for that.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal with the ensuing tsunami of litigation.

You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.

If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless, they will have no defence in law at all.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

While women were finally given the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Republican Party began to pave the way for women's suffrage decades earlier.