Quotes About Rights

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, "No."

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.

It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.

NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

One has nothing to lose by defending one's rights, even if one knows one cannot succeed. But the future is long and lies in God's hands.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power." James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America. Served 1809–1817. Known as the "Father of the Constitution" for contributions to the drafting of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind." —Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776), American political activist at the time of the Revolutionary War.

When even one American—who has done nothing wrong—is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth—then all Americans are in peril." Harry S. Truman, thirty-third President of the United States of America. Served 1945–1953.

America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want.

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want.

Explain yourself! he commanded. Isn't that rather much for a man to ask of a woman? I don't know. I have no experience of women. In the abstract, it seems to me that every man has a right to some explanation from the woman who has ruined his life. (page 90)

Sit down! You bewilder me," said the Duke. "Explain yourself!" he commanded. "Isn't that rather much for a man to ask of a woman?" "I don't know. I have no experience of women. In the abstract, it seems to me that every man has a right to some explanation from the woman who has ruined his life.

An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow.

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don't want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn't "feminine.

Surely, though, the essence of being progressive was to minimize harm and protect the most vulnerable? Yet this was simply tossed aside by left-wingers, who elevated their own desires into rights that trumped the emotional, physical and intellectual well-being of their children – and then berated as heartless reactionaries those who criticized them!

I have no doubt that slavery as an institution will eventually be banished

Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.

As Thomas Wright writes in an article from the book Co-Dependency, An Emerging Issue, "I suspect codependents have historically attacked social injustice and fought for the rights of the underdog. Codependents want to help. I suspect they have helped. But they probably died thinking they didn't do enough and were feeling guilty.

All of me, every aspect of my being, is important. I count for something. I matter. My feelings can be trusted. My thinking is appropriate. I value my wants and needs. I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment. I have rights, and it is my responsibility to assert these rights. The decisions I make and the way I conduct myself will reflect my high self-esteem.