Quotes About Rights

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

Equally important, the words of the First Amendment assume, and even insist on, a citizenry that not only has access to whatever information the government may have on them but control over the information as well.

FEMA essentially has the power to put the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

This frightening state of affairs–where a person can actually be arrested and incarcerated for the most innocent and inane activities, including feeding a whale538 and collecting rainwater on their own property539 (these are actual court cases)–is due to what law

In handing down a ruling in Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro , Judge Roberts stated that "no one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation." Ansche Hedgepeth, he recounted, "was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted

AN END-RUN AROUND POSSE COMITATUS American

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

My great-aunt, and other people's great-aunts, won all the rights that women need ages ago. All that's been lacking since then is the social courage to use them. My great-aunt and the rest thought that by technically defeating male privilege they'd scored a great victory. What they didn't realize is that the greatest enemies of women aren't men at all, they are women: silly women, lazy women, and smug women.

What right had she to oppose him? Yet it was he who had given her freedom. The word was meaningless unless in its light each one lived up to his highest and his best.

I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience . Nothing is dearer or more fundamental.

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

Anybody right here/out there who takes you for granted is disdainful (anyone who denies you your respect/right/justice/love/care/freedom). Yes, he or she is just that period.

What it takes to sustain every relationship is just compromise. That is to say, mutual concession. Yes! whoever that longs to be a true love must be a compromiser of his or her rights, interests, comfort and time. Besides that, every true love or lover is expected to share whatever he or she has with his or her spouse or partner. For, without compromise and sharing there can't be and there won't be any lasting relationship. -Emeasoba George

Freedom am liberty, Use them or lose them!

Numai dupa ce ai suferit pentru toate lucrurile ai dreptul sa-ti bati joc de ele. Cum o sa calci în picioare ce n-a fost chin?

The right to suppress everyone that bothers us should rank first in the constitution of the ideal State.

A person will be considered dead if his conscience has died and cannot demand his basic rights.