Quotes About Rights

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Woman are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Until we disentangle fundamental needs and rights from someone's ability to charge us for it, capitalism will continue to throw us over the cliff's edge. This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but a ka-ching. —Afzad Kerman in his TED Talk, "Chaos and Crisis: The Accidental Ingenuity of the Almost-Apocalypse

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

All men are created equal, unless we decide that you are not a man.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers

It is folly to buy into the argument that prostitution empowers women. If anything, it imprisons them, and legalization will exploit even more women and girls.

Sweden opted for the latter, deciding that the only correct course was to work toward eliminating prostitution and creating a society based on gender equality, a society in which prostitution is seen as incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human being and the equal rights of women and men.

Women don't vote, so they don't have to pay attention to what we want. If we could vote, though, they'd have to pay attention, and they'd have to pass the laws we want.

Se necesitaba tiempo y paciencia para que estos hombres aceptasen la lisa y llana verdad de que nadie tiene derecho a hacer el mal, aunque se haya sufrido una atroz injusticia.

Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom.

Women's rights, that antediluvian topic.

Only that saner selfishness, which Education teaches men, can find the rights of all in the whirl of work.

The black women of America have as much right to all rights as white women have, without putting on any foreign robes to get them. I love Africa, but I was born in Florida, U.S.A., America. Of my African blood I am proud, but I want American rights. Of my black face I have no shame, therefore I have the right to want the right to show my face anyplace in America any other folks show their face.

You know, our machine gun company was named after Frederick Douglass...Herndon suggested the name, and Milt made a speech on the connection between Negro rights at home and the fight here in Spain. He said, 'Yesterday, Etheopia, Czechoslovakia--today, Spain--tomorrow, maybe America. Fascism won't stop anywhere--until we stop it.

What shall I tell my children?...You tell me- 'Cause freedom ain't freedom when a man ain't free.

was not until 1925, eight years after the Balfour Declaration, that Chaim Weizmann warned: "Palestine is not Rhodesia and 600,000 Arabs live there who . . . have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

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.

Freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this " freedom" give "big brother", the opportunity to dictate our way of life???

Separation of church and state' meant freedom to worship, not freedom from worship.

Every word removed from the language is another brick removed from the wall of democracy.