Quotes About Rights

The simple right to reproductive freedom - to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction - is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.

The voting booth is the one place on Earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.

Prostitution isn't the oldest profession, it's the oldest oppression.

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

It was a constitutional convention for the female half of the country. After all, we had been excluded from the first one.

They knew that in the 1970s the Indian Health Service of the U.S. government admitted that thousands of Native women had been sterilized without their informed consent. Some called it a long-term strategy for taking over Indian lands, and others said it was the same racism that had sterilized black women in the South.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied." If

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrement.

Without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.

Si se tiene fuerza, se tienen derechos.

Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanised state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system? - 3rd Leaflet of the White Rose

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

Tunisia's Educational Reform Law, passed in 1991, decreed education to be compulsory for both sexes up until the age of 16.5 Mohamed Charfi, who served as Minister of Education from 1989 to 1994, sought to establish a clear distinction between the study of religion on the one hand and the study of the rights and duties of citizenship—civics—on the other.

Jefferson's extraordinary efforts to defend the rights of neutrals to trade freely drove the country into a deep depression and severely damaged his presidency. He ended up violating much of what he and his party stood for.

In general, we have as natural a right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Censorship offends me.

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

But freedom is not enough.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.