Quotes About Rights

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

It is the position of some theists that their right to freedom of religion is abridged when they are not allowed to violate the rationalists' right to freedom from religion.

In practice Truman's loyalty program was careless of civil liberties. The very word "loyalty" was problematic, encouraging zealots to bring charges on vague and imprecise grounds. While employees had the right to hear of charges against them, accusers could withhold anything they designated as secret. Government workers did not have the right to know the identity of their accusers—often agents of the FBI—or to confront them in the hearings.

grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in another context many years later, the "grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It was on the meaning of the Declaration that battle lines were drawn. As

No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor "of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry.

A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong

He spurred the Whig-dominated state legislature to pass a series of antislavery laws affirming the rights of black citizens against seizure by Southern agents, guaranteeing a trial by jury for any person so apprehended, and prohibiting New York police officers and jails from involvement in the apprehension

If I am ever to be remembered," Johnson wistfully told me, "it will be for civil rights.

It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract," he noted, "to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form," they assume an obligation to the public.

If it's true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

Farthest am I from perfection's heights, Faulty am I as I well could be, Still I insist on my share of rights.

But that spring Washington had ordered an end to the hormonal injections when they were linked to cancer in laboratory animals. Instead, the Relfs later learned, their daughters were sterilized.

That's right: In the United States of America today, it is illegal for playing-by-the-rules, state-registered medical cannabis patients nationwide to bear arms. Whacked on OxyContin? Shoot away.

Mr. Prosser said, "You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time, you know.

Rüyas?nda, gecenin geç bir saatinde DoÄŸu Yakas?ndaki nehrin k?y?s?nda yürüyordu ve nehir öyle acayip kirlenmiÅŸti ki, art?k suyun içinde bir sürü yeni canl? türü kendiliÄŸinden ortaya ç?k?yor, kendileri için devlet yard?m? ve oy hakk? talep ediyorlard?.

Eight months passed before they were actually charged with murder: That was how long it took to develop the "evidence." In the United States, suspects typically cannot be held more than 72 hours without being charged.

What are blessings in freedom are curses in slavery.

Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!

I am not concerned with nations, Monsieur. I am concerned with the lives of private individuals who have the right not to have their lives taken from them.