Quotes About Rights

He guessed that was what the military was always fighting for, the rights and freedoms of the next generation.

Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.

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Free speech is not really free if it costs you all that you have.

Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.

This is why Frederick Douglass (unlike many Americans today who have never taken the time to study the Constitution) could therefore emphatically declare that the Constitution – all of the Constitution – was anti-slavery.

It's the exercise of power, not the exercise of freedom, that requires justification.

the political left, would argue that the "right to life" means that everyone has a fundamental right to the necessities of life: food, clothing, shelter, medical care, maybe even an eight-hour day and two weeks of vacation. But if the right to life means that, then it means that one person has a right to force other people to give him things, violating their equal rights.

Some forms of socialism and collectivism are – explicitly or implicitly – based on the notion that many people are not competent to make decisions about their own lives, so that the more talented should make decisions for them. But that would mean there were no universal human rights, only rights that some have and others do not, denying the essential humanity of those who are deemed to be owned.

When rights become merely legal claims attached to interests and preferences, the stage is set for political and social conflict.

Today, when a new federal law is proposed, many libertarian-minded people on both the right and the left look to the Bill of Rights to see whether the law would violate any constitutional rights. But we should look first to the enumerated powers to see if the federal government has been granted the power to undertake the proposed action. Only if it has such a power should we move on to ask whether its proposed action would violate any protected right.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

OSF was also the first major foundation to get behind same-sex marriage. From 2000 to 2005, a pivotal period in the marriage equality fight, OSF invested millions in LGBT rights organizations. This early money, some of which went to back state-level fights, like a 2005 legal challenge in Iowa, was arguably more important than the bigger money that came in from other funders later on. OSF grants also went to frontline activist groups fighting for immigrants and, later, to Black Lives Matter.

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.

We live in a complicated and interdependent society; each of us is constantly affected by events thousands of miles away occurring to people he has never heard of. How, in such a society, can we meaningfully talk about each person being free to go his own way? The answer to this question lies in the concept of property rights.

Your Highness could never be silly,' Adara told her. Ce'Nedra lifted her chin. 'Oh yes I can,' she declared. 'I've got as much right to make a fool of myself in public as anyone else.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair To extol what it hath done. One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

Why should their liberty than ours be more?

almost unique in Eastern Europe in possessing its own constitution, called even now "the Magdeburg rights" and based upon medieval laws formulated in the city of Magdeburg? Was

Well-armed citizens were more of a danger to lawbreakers than the authorities were. If anybody ever figured out how to take all the guns away from the people, so that they could no longer defend themselves, then hell would break loose.