Quotes About Rights

La primera igualdad es la equidad

for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.

Men. They always thought everything was about them. But women could stand up for their rights, too; women could hold picket signs and stop the means of production as well as men.

Une société qui se serait emparé de toute la richesse sociale et qui aura hautement proclamée que "tous" ont droit à cette richesse, - quelle que fut la part qu'ils eussent prises antérieurement à la créer, - sera forcée d'abandonner toute idée de salariat, soit en monnaie, soit en bons de travail.

During the more conservative 1950s, President Eisenhower, who fashioned himself a "modern Republican," had said that "only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice" and "hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.

This view is an instance of what my friend Skip Gates has called "cultural geneticism,"80 It has, in Bertrand Russell's wicked phrase, "the virtues of theft over honest toil." On this view, you earn rights to culture that is marked with the mark of your race— or your nation—simply by having a racial identity.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

Unless there is something to free men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery.

Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until they are finished, so by this time he was saying: "Do you understand these rights?" "No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!

Les bêtes sont ce que l'homme a le plus méconnu et le plus opprimé

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

Why should we have to disappear just because men are animals?

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.

He stepped back, cursing. "Hey, haven't you heard of the First Amendment? You jerk!" The security guard, still gunning like a mad scientist, said over the loudspeaker, "Sure, you little shit, and Prince Charles is a Tampax

No matter what it was or is," I said, "you have the right to make a request. You don't have to endure, as you say, 'the shivers.