Quotes About Rights

An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

freedom is not given, it is won.

All of this tells us that the white backlash is nothing new. White America has been backlashing on the fundamental God-given and human rights of Negro Americans for more than three hundred years. With all of her dazzling achievements and stupendous material strides, America has maintained its strange ambivalence on the question of racial justice.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.

There was an office called the champion of England, which entailed none but ceremonial duties. The champion was to enter Westminster Hall on horseback, armed cap-a-pie, to challenge anyone disputing the king's rights and to throw down a glove for any challenger to pick up. Three horsemen who represented the

The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.

Ä°nsanlar?n elde edip tutmay? baÅŸarabilecekleri bireysel özgürlüÄŸün miktar? onlar?n politik olgunluÄŸuna baÄŸl?d?r. Gün ortas?nda karanl?k s.164

Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect of governments, and perhaps was the generating clout against encroachments on the spiritual protections for speech, assembly, and so on. It might turn out that without the right to possess we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be.

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Si en los pequeños asuntos cotidianos, las pequeñeces de la vida... un hombre es desconsiderado y sólo busca aquello que le resulte ventajoso o conveniente, sin importarle los derechos de los demás; si se apropia de lo que pertenece a todos por igual, puede usted estar seguro de que no hay justicia en su corazón y de que sería un villano de talla mayor si no fuese porque la ley y la fuerza le atan las manos.

Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation

The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.

Ronald Dworkin

Enforced sterilization and unavailable abortions are tools of oppression against Black women, as is rape.

This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty going as spoils to the victor or the stronger.

They say they needed that. Say the colored man got a right to life. Say they was fighting against slavery. I asked them what took them so long. My daddy fought against slavery all his life. (...) They was real serious about it. I knew all them guns wasn't on account of me. I figure they was fighting for themselves. And if that would help them that would help us.

Please use your liberty to promote ours

Were she to be allowed to take her rightful place as the elected leader of the Burmese people, I have little doubt that the principles so eloquently expressed in these pages would illuminate her governance.

Or the people they call terrorists. If it's you who's in the foreign country, and the people you're waiting for arguably have more of a right to be there than you do, who's the terrorist?

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.