Quotes About Rights

She viewed her advocacy not as a crusade for abstract principles but as a fight for justice for individual men and women disadvantaged by laws that discriminated on the basis of sex.

So, my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

Ginsburg noted that women's equality was a less prominent theme in Roe, which had "coupled with the rights of the pregnant woman the free exercise of her physician's medical judgment," and she suggested that Roe might have been less controversial if the decision had focused more precisely on women's equality.

I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges.

The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

special forces and drones replaced the type of large-scale ground invasion that destroyed Iraq. But the defining essence of the Bush-Cheney template—that the United States is fighting an endless war against terror suspects who have no due process rights of any kind—is very much alive and, in many cases, stronger than ever.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

With all due respect, sir," she said, "I do not believe justice will ever be truly possible, economic or otherwise, for any human being, until we have once and for all emancipated the vagina.

The logic against them could not be more elementary. First, the unborn entity is an actual being, it is alive. If this were not so, there would be no need for an abortion. The very purpose of the abortion is to kill that which is alive. Second, this being is human. What else could it be? Feline? Canine? Bovine? As Congressman Henry Hyde once quipped, "No woman has ever given birth to a Golden Retriever." Human beings give birth to human beings.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

I'm not going to work with a company that uses my artwork, which is precious to me, and not allow me to do certain things.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.

I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.