Quotes About Rights

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.

disability rights and to demand full access. Ed Roberts and others at the University of California Berkeley in the 1960s forced the university to admit them, to provide access to classes and other activities, and to provide the support

He's practicing his Constitutional right to be a jackass.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

The Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to deny or disparage other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.

This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Thereafter, the Gibneys and the Oppenheimers had nothing to do with each other. They hired lawyers and squabbled over beach rights. The feud became a legend on the island.

Animals have no rights

Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

who knew everything about her rights and nothing about the fragility of her place in the world.

I'm an unwavering supporter of labor unions and understand that they are currently in a death struggle with corporate overlords grinding workers' rights under their tasseled Gucci loafers.

A person in power should never use his position to intimidate citizens from exercising their rights.

We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.