Quotes About Rights

You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right.

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I fucking matter," she tells Cas, her cheeks growing pink. "He has no right to tell me I don't.

All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon. In 1938, Helen Hulick was jailed for wearing slacks -- put behind bars. Do you think society should have the right to jail or punish you for what you choose to wear?

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.

Why do we let blind people and people in wheelchairs become citizens? I feel sorry for cripples, but that doesn't mean I want them in my country.

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

People - particularly in the Southeast, Georgia, my district, all across the state - they don't want the federal government to have the ability, at times whenever the federal government wants to declare an emergency, to start going around and confiscating people's guns.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

Israel has the right to defend itself as a sovereign country.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.