Quotes About Rights

We've always been privileged, you see. Privilege just means 'private law.' That's exactly what it means.

Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?

One does not have to dress in a way that is unflattering, or even unfashionable, to be rational—and comfortable. How can you expect women to exercise their faculties, nay, their rights, in clothes that confine them? We shall never be men's equals while we lace ourselves into ill health and drape ourselves in fabric until we can scarcely move. Dress reform is almost as important to our cause as the vote.

How can you expect women to exercise their faculties, nay, their rights, in clothes that confine them? We shall never be men's equals while we lace ourselves into ill health and drape ourselves in fabric until we can scarcely move. Dress reform is almost as important to our cause as the vote.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.

I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.

Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Delay in justice is injustice.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Justice is never given; it is exacted.

We've begun to get justice.