Quotes About Rights

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

There can be no such thing as justice unless there are freedom and equal conditions; there can be no such thing as equality unless there is freedom.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision.

And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.

I am heartbroken for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodies... This is what our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers lived through, and now here we are again.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

You have the right to remain silent. You also have the right to put on pants before I cuff you and have you taken into Central.

but a hospital, it seemed, was a place for bodies, where bodies asserted their rights.

y si tengo algún derecho es el derecho a que no me juzgues de este modo, a no tener que justificarme: ni ante ti ni ante nadie.

Mi defensa se apoya en los derechos del deseo —dice—. En el dios que hace temblar incluso a las aves más diminutas.

My body, my choice." As

I pushed. You have a right to push back.

I plead the fifth.

the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights; global warming to climate change; gay marriage to marriage equality; liberal to progressive.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?