Quotes About Rights

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

You have got to have social justice to have climate justice.

The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

But cutting the working week would free the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit. Human freedom should be the core aim of modern socialism. The right to work less would be an act of liberation - and a cause the left should embrace.

When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

Democracy in a socialist country is freedom in chains.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

Proprietary software is an injustice.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.