Quotes About Rights

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?

The Singapore School of Thought, as some began to call it, emphasised the lack of universality of many Western political norms...Singapore's own view emphasised economic and social rights which tended to be downplayed by some advocates of political ad civil liberties.

So they pretended on paper that you were a chimp and tinkered with your eyes, and the animal rights people got hold of the news, and they were incensed on your behalf. Or they would've been, if you'd been a monkey. Do

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Gay rights aren't predicated on being born gay or having the right gene. Gay rights are predicated on having choice and consent. If you're a man and you can find another man that consents to have sex with you, it's the consent that gives you the right to have sex with him. Genetics are irrelevant when it comes to sexual rights. Just as gay rights are based on choice and consent, so are prostitution rights. All sexual rights are based on choice and consent.

Older people think they have a natural right to judge you.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Taxes — wealth and waste laws and loopholes dollars and deficits rights and wrongs security and wars ceilings and floors

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

How is it possible that a woman who is unfit to vote should be the mother of, and bring up, a man who is?

[W]e need to build our democracy and our voting system on a rock, the rock of adding a Voting Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that applies to all states and all citizens.

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.

My dear friend and colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American hero. She spent her life fighting for the equality of all people, and she was a pathbreaking champion of women's rights. She served our Court and country with consummate dedication, tirelessness, and passion for justice. She has left a legacy few could rival.

Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, "We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Vote like your rights depend on it — they do.

The right to vote is the fundamental citizenship right that protects all other rights.

The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.

If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain.

Vote like you understand that someone died for your right to do so.

I often quoted the lines of Sarah Grimke, one of two wonderful sisters from South Carolina, and they said to legislators in the mid-1900s, I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of my brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

I had an abortion..(so) I'm here to say, when politicians argue and shout about abortion, they're talking about me – and millions of other women around the country.