Quotes About Rights

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

It proclaimed a new nation, the first in history established on the principle that every person is entitled to pursue his own values: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that 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.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.

There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make sure that the costs are borne by the parties responsible.

Equal rights meant just that, rights for both blacks and women, with the association working for both at the same time. Women should not be told to stand back and wait. [Frederick] Douglas said that women should be generous and allow the Negro to get his vote first. A young woman in the audience replied that she did not think it generous to compel women to yield on all questions ... simply because they are women.

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.

That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Tal com ho veig jo, el que hem decidit nosaltres, les dones, és que volem tres coses, i que hi tenim dret. Quines?, pregunta la Greta. Volem seguretat per als nostres fills, diu la Mariche. Se li escapa alguna llàgrima i li costa de parlar, però continua. Ens volem mantenir fermes en la nostra fe. Volem poder pensar.

Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo

Because there is one God, all people are related to that one God on equal terms. The central command of that one God is to love neighbors—to treat others as we would like them to treat us, as expressed in the Golden Rule. We cannot claim any rights for ourselves and our group that we are not willing to give to others. Whether as a stance of the heart or as outward practice, religion cannot be coerced.[217]

I'm not defending their views . I'm defending their right to have their views. There's a difference.

The privileged liberal position: "There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

The only problem was, the founders left a lot of people out of the Constitution. They left out poor people and black people and female people. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. And it still goes on today.

Until June 26, 1918, all Texans could vote except "idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women.

Harriet, an atheist, was championing the rights of true believers. She could argue anything, any position. Yasmin—despite her sinking feeling—admired the way Harriet's mind darted, her panoramic intellect, her insatiable curiosity. Ma and Baba had a new thought only once a decade. That was probably an overestimate. Their views never changed. Baba had no time for religion and now was the time for him to say so out loud. Come on, Baba! Speak!

For law can be just or unjust. Dr. Huey P. Newton said, "The law must serve men; not men serve the law." John Africa, founder of the MOVE Organization, said, "Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women's so-called rights.

environmental movement sought to distance themselves from Leopold's "radical" suggestion that nature had an inherent value beyond its utility to man. If watersheds and old-growth forests had a "right to continued existence," as Leopold argued (a preview of the "rights of nature" debates that would emerge several decades later), then an owner's right to do what he wished with his land could be called into question.

No one has more legal power to halt the reckless expansion of the tar sands than the First Nations living downstream whose treaty-protected hunting, fishing, and trapping grounds have already been fouled, just as no one has more legal power to halt the rush to drill under the Arctic's melting ice than Inuit, Sami, and other northern Indigenous tribes whose livelihoods would be jeopardized by an offshore oil spill. Whether they are able to exercise those rights is another matter.