Quotes About Rights

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

It is easy to compress the passions by violence. Philosophy suppresses them with a stroke of the pen. Locks and the sword come to the aid of sweet morality, but nature appeals these judgments; she regains her rights in secret. Passion stifled at one point reappears at another like water held back by a dike; it is driven inward like the fluid of an ulcer closed to soon.

Carried down my last number to the Advocate. They will not publish the letters I wish. So much for the freedom of that press.

Just as this social creation, the state, cannot coherently be limited by reference to rights that are its own invention, and society is fundamentally organized by entities whose reality is society's own construct, so it is with the value of physical objects and human labor, the division of the sexes and indeed the identity of the individual person, subsisting over time as the distinct and ultimate subject of discourse and attribution.

we need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty's most difficult intellectual task.

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card.

In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape. It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

With the end of empire, we are coming to an end of the epoch of rights. We have entered the epoch of responsibilities, which requires new, socially-minded human beings and new, more participatory and place-based concepts of citizenship and democracy.

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this

We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

Equal in law is not equal in nature.

Por el mero hecho de existir la gente se cree con derecho a ser feliz.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

This stance makes no distinction between (1) the pluralistic standpoint of making sure people have equal rights and (2) the act of co-dependently making sure not to hurt anyone's feelings, however irrational they may be. We need to stop that nonsense. Getting your feelings hurt, quite frankly, is the price of living a in a free society.

It must be said that "winning" the green card is a misnomer. We had simply won the right to formally apply and have our application processed. We still had to pay for all the processing.

She had lived in Iceland from birth, a total of 36 years, without knowing that she had the right to live, work and vote in the USA.

sobre la necesidad de proteger y difundir la herbolaria indígena como una práctica médica válida. Podrías reclamar los derechos de los mapuches en la Araucanía frente a las invasiones de sus tierras por colonos blancos. Defenderías la preservación de las lenguas nativas.