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Quotes About Rights

All the bakers had banded together. They said he had to take back the workers he had fired and meet all three of their demands: (1) A ruble raise; (2) Sleeping-at-home rights; (3) No more knocking out teeth. It
~ Sholom Aleichem
Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.
~ Sigmund Freud
Zimmermann believed that everybody deserved the right to the privacy that was offered by RSA encryption, and he directed his political zeal toward developing an RSA encryption product for the masses.
~ Simon Singh
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~ Simon Singh
No hay libertad sin justicia
~ Simon Wiesenthal
To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
L'action des femmes n'a jamais été qu'une agitation symbolique; elles n'ont gagné que ce que les hommes ont bien voulu leur concéder; elles n'ont rien pris: elles ont reçu.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
No veía ninguna razón para reconocerle a mi compañero derechos que él no me concedía.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Gerechtigkeit kann innerhalb der Ungerechtigkeit nie geschaffen werden.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
And sometimes I think myself sensible, and sometimes I accuse myself of cowardice. In fact I am defenseless because I have never supposed I had any rights. I expect a lot of the people I love - too much, perhaps. I expect a lot, and I even ask for it. But I do not know how to insist.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The unjust will of an entire nation is by no means superior to the unjust will of a single individual.
~ Simone Weil
True Christian liberty, unlike the various freedom or liberation movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the rights we have.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Mrs. Pike, ought to know that freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob.
~ Sinclair Lewis
freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob.
~ Sinclair Lewis
This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.
~ Sinclair Lewis
So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!
~ Solomon Northup
Of course you did ; the law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. Yes, Epps, when the law says that it's a liar, and the truth is not in it. Is every thing right because the law allows it ? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
~ Solomon Northup
Every time we lobbied them for the right to choose whether or not we will have children, we acknowledged that men owned us.
~ Sonia Johnson
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.
~ George W. Bush
The only object of liberty is life.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.
~ Glenn Beck
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
~ Gloria Steinem
People have a copyright on their own life.
~ Hilton Als