Quotes About Rights

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

Identity politics may claim to defend the rights of individuals, but increasingly it has become a mechanism for undermining the freedom of people to hold and express an opposing view.

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

It's none of your concern about how I lead my life or who pays for it. I don't care about your opinions, and you have no right to force them on me.

Where did the men get the gold So extraordinarily Leaving little of me left And from what men (The men that burn in my heart) I should escape. I am ashamed. If the men turn towards me Where are the rights of my solitude?

The women were of a unique and overlooked generation. Many were born in 1920, the historic year when American women won the right to vote. Their early life was led in an atmosphere of broadening opportunity

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. Feminism is not a prejudice, she said, It is a principle.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.

The "basis of Feminism," Sanger said, had to be a woman's control over her own body, "the right to be a mother regardless of church or state."15

You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.

They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free." Titania

My case rests on the rights of desire,' he says. 'On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.

My case rests on the rights of desire,' he says. 'On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.' (11)

Nobody talked as much as Kiki did about the possibility of fairness.