Quotes About Rights

People in the U.S. who feel they need guns or enjoy gun sports of various types, are, in other words, decent, law-abiding, generally honest members of society. Their wish to have guns should be respected.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

It's my right to write on what I feel about certain incidents, and it's your choice whether to read it or not.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Alors? Le féminisme ou la mort, comme disent certaines? Il serait peut-être plus modeste et plus juste de dire : le féminisme et la vie.

That which has no existence cannot be destroyed -- that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense -- nonsense upon stilts.

The day has been, I grieve to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated by the law exactly upon the same footing as, in England for example, the inferior races of animals are still.

An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime. If I had such a right over the stick I am about to cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.

In a free and democratic society such as ours, justice should not eternally abrogate one's rights to freedom and liberty, except in the most extreme cases.

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.