Quotes About Rights

Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others.

People who refuse to muster appropriately self-protective territorial responses are laid open to exploitation as much as those who genuinely can't stand up for their own rights because of a more essential inability or a true imbalance in power.

One might think that a generation that has heard endlessly, from their more ideological teachers, about the rights, rights, rights that belong to them, would object to being told that they would do better to focus instead on taking responsibility.

Christianity made explicit the surprising claim that even the lowliest person had rights, genuine rights—and that sovereign and state were morally charged, at a fundamental level, to recognize those rights. Christianity put forward, explicitly, the even more incomprehensible idea that the act of human ownership degraded the slaver (previously viewed as admirable nobility) as much or even more than the slave.

Por supuesto que la paz es el respeto al derecho ajeno, en eso todos estamos de acuerdo. En lo que nadie está de acuerdo es en cuál es el derecho ajeno.

Me siento incómodo, pero me aguanto, porque considero que cada quien tiene derecho a expresarse como pueda. Es mi filosofía.

Al momento de escribir estas líneas, Israel Vallarta permanece internado en El Altiplano y aún no ha sido juzgado.

Hay a quien la palabra libertad no se le cae de la boca, pero la entienden como el derecho que ellos tienen a ejercerla. La censuran a los demás cuando no les conviene que salgan a la luz determinadas cosas.

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.

Sola la opresión debe temer al pleno ejercicio de la libertad.

Lo característico del momento es que el alma vulgar, sabiéndose vulgar, tiene el denuedo de afirmar el derecho a la vulgaridad y lo impone dondequiera.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Las costumbres y las leyes pueden establecer derechos y deberes comunes a todos los hombres; pero éstos serán siempre tan desiguales como las olas que erizan la superficie de un océano.

When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute man's patrimony, a person has the right to deal with the people who despoil him, like a thief who assaults us in the roadway. No qualifications, no exceptions.

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty

A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.

I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.