Quotes About Rights

You know what really pisses me off?" Charlie asked as she dragged her yelling cousin behind her. "I mean, besides when assholes such as yourself believe they can put their hands on women without their consent.

Tens of millions of Americans now live longer and healthier lives because activists all over our nation fought for our American values of fairness and economic justice.

From the perspective of many ethical vegans, the "What about plants?" question sounds absurd. Does the omnivore really believe in plants' rights? More likely, the vegan assumes, the omnivore is suggesting that granting rights to animals is as ridiculous as granting rights to plants. But perhaps the non-vegan sincerely wants to hear the vegan's answer to this seemingly-rhetorical question.

I'm always one sentence away from bringing up democracy, religious freedom, the rights of minorities, all of these in danger.

Ownership that gave curious rights, dominances—fathers over children, men and women over lands, houses, factories in cities, fields.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.

One corrected an outrageous legal discrimination against women schoolteachers. If pregnancy interrupted their careers, they lost their tenure rights. My bill changed that.

As a chief justice of the United States once said, blacks were three-fifths of a human, and only a full human being should have rights, the implication being that three-fifths of a human being was something fit to function only as a beast of burden. Well, that is a distortion exposing the enemies of logic and reason, and among them are mass hysteria, hate, prejudice, and ignorance. With

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.

America is basically about freedom.

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of action and expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society.

You cannot murder interns, but other than that, they are the same as mules. You can rob them, abuse them, debase them. There are no limits. When a man agrees to be intern, he is saying, "I am no longer human being with rights, I am like dog or monkey. Use me for labor until my body breaks and then consume all of my meats." I

Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.