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Quotes About Rights

The sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
~ Walter Bagehot
People of faith can read the Bible so that almost any perspective on a current issue will find some support in the Bible. That rich and multivoiced offering in the Bible is what makes appeals to it so tempting—and yet so tricky and hazardous, because much of our reading of the Bible turns out to be an echo of what we thought anyway. THE ISSUE OF LAND The dispute between Palestinians and Israelis is elementally about land and secondarily about security and human rights.
~ Walter Brueggemann
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
~ Walter Cronkite
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
~ Walter Cronkite
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.
~ Walter E. Williams
What's "just" has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn "belongs" to you -- and why?
~ Walter E. Williams
But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?
~ Walter E. Williams
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
~ Walter E. Williams
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
~ Walter E. Williams
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong
~ Walter E. Williams
French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: "See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
~ Walter E. Williams
The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another—that in my book is a working definition of slavery.
~ Walter E. Williams
You men win your way into office and retain that office essentially by promising some Americans that you will give them the fruits of another man's labor. You also win office by promising one group of Americans that they will be given a right or privilege that will be denied other Americans.
~ Walter E. Williams
How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.
~ Walter Kirn
nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the "civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.
~ Walter Laqueur
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
~ Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
~ Walter Lippmann
En el contexto civilizado, la estrategia de sumisión trae más problemas que ventajas. El sumiso desconoce sus derechos personales y, por lo tanto, no los defiende ni los ejerce. Se acurruca, se entrega, se agacha, pero a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo animal, aquí el opositor no perdona: "Al caído, caerle".
~ Walter Riso
La autorrealización es un derecho que tienes por el solo hecho de haber nacido.
~ Walter Riso
aplica las siguientes dos máximas y adhiérete a los límites que marcan, por si la culpa y la preocupación no te dejan "descontrolarte" (en el buen sentido). Ponlas en un lugar visible y échale un vistazo de tanto en tanto:   1. Puedes hacer lo que quieras, si no es dañino para ti ni para nadie. 2. Haz lo que quieras, si no violas la Carta Universal de los Derechos Humanos.   Que
~ Walter Riso
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
~ Wangari Maathai
Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete.
~ Wangari Maathai
Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finché potete.
~ Wangari Maathai
Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.
~ Warren Gamaliel Harding