Quotes About Rights

George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.

Desde que descobrira - mas descobrira realmente com um tom espantado - que ia morrer um dia, então não teve mais medo da vida, e, por causa da morte, dinha direitos totais: arriscava tudo.

Teju Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.

I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Support your right to arm bears.

Richard Stallman, a free-lance computer programmer, loudly proclaimed that information should be free.

We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.

Advocacy is not adherence or principle if it knows no law.

The balance of life is like a pendulum of rights and opportunities.

The constitution is designed for equal protection of rights. Taxation is designed for equal distribution of rights.

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bullshit about 'sanctity' — don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

The people should fight for their law as for a wall.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.