Quotes About Rights

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

Rights" have a dull sound to people who have grown up after they have been won.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.

The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.

Thanks to this ruling, states now had the right to perform surgery on healthy citizens against their will—a liberty never before extended in any advanced country. Yet the case attracted almost no attention.

I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to be a complete asshole.

Everyone eligible to vote should be able to do so without unnecessary inconvenience

Do not fuck with gun nuts because they are nuts about their guns.

Calvin: I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled! Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant? Calvin: I don't know, but I refuse to find out!

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Ci Puo' essere quakcosa di piu' stupido del fatto che un uomo abbia il diritto di uccidermi perche' vive sull'altra sponda di un fiume e il suo sovrano ha avuto una lite con il mio, anche se io non ho litigato con lui?

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?

you're very pro-choice." "What does that mean?

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Una cosa inutile come la sofferenza non può dare diritti a nessuno su niente.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both. The

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both.

Democracy wasn't about how you were different, it was about how you were the same. It was about the rights and freedoms everyone enjoyed, and how everyone protected them. Democracy was also about your responsibilities, your duties, as a citizen. When people began to see themselves as members of a subset first, it was a flashing red light—a warning that a nation's democracy was in peril. Factionalism was the opposite of patriotism.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little added security, deserve neither and will lose both.

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Some are rich, some are poor. Some are beautiful, some aren't. Some are brilliant, some aren't. But when we get sick - then everybody is equal. Everybody must have equal right to the best medical treatment we can provide. That is the basic rule of French health care. Surely, that's the basic rule of health care in every country. -pg 64

the same privilege

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.