Quotes About Rights

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

Welfare states come in different shapes and sizes; they are constructed on diverging conceptions of social rights and duties; some stress equality and solidarity, others freedom; and the range of policy objectives is vast and widely dissimilar.

Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they're dead.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

It was said six hundred years ago by a great man. He said, 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

There's a strong Republican and conservative case to be made in favor of the right to marry," Ken Mehlman told the room. "If we are all endowed by a creator with unalienable rights including the pursuit of happiness, how can that not include marrying the person you love?"

Here again the concept of stewardship serves as a helpful guiding principle. Rights are not something you deserve and possess for your own benefit. Rather, they are privileges given to you by God, and he wants you to use them for his glory and to benefit others, especially by helping them know Christ. As a steward, it is also appropriate to consider your needs and personal responsibilities

By the time the war was over, Great Britain also had a new monarch in George III, who had taken the throne in 1760. And in Boston, a feisty American lawyer named James Otis would issue his first political tract and argue that American colonists possessed all the rights of an English citizen.

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

The concept "rights" is a deduction from the fundamental fact of self-ownership. The claim to property in one's own person is a moral claim to noninterference and exclusivity. No person has a claim on any other person's life (i.e., their body, mind, and actions).

Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution?

Jesus was born under the law of God and took on himself the condemnation we deserved for our sin. Now the full legal rights of adoption are given to us who are in Christ by faith.

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

One with the law is a majority.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.