Quotes About Rights

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Muy pocas mujeres en tal o cual comité ejecutivo. Otra junta directiva sin mujeres. Hombres que toman decisiones sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres. Clubes para caballeros. Los derechos de los hombres. Las revistas de mujeres. Feminismo. Hasta nunca.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

And part of being American is respecting all people's right to be whatever they want to be and at the same time respecting your own right to bitch about it, as long as you're educated and can reason your way through your bitching.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.