Quotes About Rights

I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

It is in human nature to respect power; but all his manliness was at stake, and his natural rights would be degraded and lost, if he could not show his power to be greater than her own.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

When we are in the realm of Conflict, we can move from the Abuse-based construction of perpetrator and victim to the more accurate recognition of the parties as the conflicted, each with legitimate concerns and legitimate rights that must be considered in order to produce just resolution.

friends should have the right to adopt one another after age thirteen.

it is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

In each instance Jesus advocates grace beyond retribution and expectation. He does not advocate passivity but active generosity that deconstructs the system because of the presence of the kingdom. Surrendering one's rights for the good of the other manifests the Jesus Creed and its variant, the Golden Rule

Although utilitarianism has appeal, especially in a secular society, it also has shortcomings. The most common charge against utilitarianism is that it cannot protect the rights of minorities, and sometimes it can even justify obvious injustices when the greater good is served.

The first country where a woman was allowed to vote was New Zealand in 1893.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.