Quotes About Rights

Give us also the right to our existence!

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

There's maybe ten places in the country where free speech still works, but this isn't one of them.

It needs to be free. It was born free. It isn't property.

jury of the ignorant and a judge with issues would award millions to the trespasser.

Which do you think is more important, Binti- jobs of freedom of speech?' Binti thought for a moment. 'It depends on how poor you are.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

This is America . . . where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young

Humans don't really like freedom of speech, Lukianoff told them, they like to say they like it. And they definitely like their won freedom of speech. They don't necessarily like your freedom of speech that much

The majority does not need a special amendment. The only reason you have a First Amendment is to protect the rights of the minorities, of people who aren't the majority. People who aren't in power.

If we are to save a society in deep trouble, many changes are necessary. In terms of rights, two changes are mandatory. First, far more Americans need to ask what is good for society? before asking what is good for my group? Second, we need people to speak up on behalf of the one truly helpless group—children. For this to happen, people must start to think of children as human beings, not as property.

Children are not owned by parents. They have an inalienable right to come into this world to a loving mother and father who are married to each other. And they have an inalienable right to be protected from all who would hurt them.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

I remembered seeing the lines of people who had waited for hours and hours to vote in the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The lines snaked on for miles. I remember wondering at the time, as U.S. voter turnout was hovering under forty percent, how long that sense of joy and appreciation for the right to vote would last and whether there was any way to revive it in America among those who have never been denied the right to vote.

when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?

Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?

GIVE ME LIBERTY …

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.

I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.