Quotes About Rights

que, se a educação modifica a natureza, a natureza pode em suas exigências mais absolutas readquirir os seus direitos e manifestar a sua força.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

Everyones entitled to be stupid but you are abusing the privilege.

You have the right to remain silent, so please SHUT UP.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Don't deprive another human being of his or her rights, the possibilities are that fate would play the same game with you.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You

Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others?

In 1776 the founders of the United States of America sent a Declaration of Independence to the King of England. In that Declaration, Thomas Jefferson wrote "that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive… it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." We are invoking this right to rise up and alter the course of our government. You have had your chance to correct America's course, and you have failed.

this universe is not a democracy, and you cannot democratize or Americanize the kingdom of heaven. You have no rights that would require God to treat you a certain way.

You cannot rally against abortion, and then support a law that grants unbiblical rights to homosexuals, regardless of whether you think it is the American thing to do. God will not hold you guiltless just because you are dealing with matters of the state. He might just "separate" you from the church altogether and send you to hell. There you can sort out your politics.

El feminismo es una aventura colectiva, para las mujeres pero también para los hombres y para todos los demás. Una revolución que ya ha comenzado. Una visión del mundo, una opción. No se trata de oponer las pequeñas ventajas de las mujeres a los pequeños derechos adquiridos de los hombres, sino de dinamitarlo todo.

Doing what we should never be done: asking for money for what must remain free. The decision does not belong to each adult woman, but is imposed by collective laws. Prostitutes are the only workers whose alienation moves the upper class -- to the extent that women who have never lacked for anything are absolutely, smugly convinced that prostitution should not be legalized.

People have a right to their lives,' she says softly.

it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.

The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.

It is true that liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.