Quotes About Rights

No one should believe those who surround "the ballot box with obstacles and sinuosities . . . intended to . . . defeat . . . the elective franchise.

Douglass's later, prolific appeals to the natural-rights tradition, and even to the right of revolution, should be first considered in light of these compelling, damaging childhood memories of such cruelty.

Too many whites, he said, were "haunted with the idea, that to invest the colored race with equal rights is dangerous to the rights of white men." Such a "mischievous heresy" had for far too long paralyzed history.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

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the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential.

I was afraid of being annihilated on account of saying no: those who refuse to fulfill their duties lose their right to exist.

White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights.

It's a question of what love gives you the right to do.

Peele gets to the core of what contemporary entitlement looks like—concern with one's personal rights combined with non-interest in one's duties

Motion picture rights brought in a fortune and, with 109 films based on his work, Grey set a record yet to be equaled by any other author.

I'm against abortion.

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

I am a woman's advocate. I stand against abortion.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

All Americans are taught, and hopefully believe, in the idea that we are all created equal and should be treated that way.

I want to help change the laws to protect all people - not just Republicans, not just Democrats, not just Black people, all people.

Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

We have to protect the rights of the American people.