Quotes About Rights

I was a proponent of the ERA.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

I believe every man is born equal.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

Ningún hombre debería verse obligado a comprar su libertad.

No hay libertad con hambre

To recover his citizen's rights and acquire still more new, exclusive prerogatives that would render to Laurence's authority soul and body not just the wennies, but also the entire country, he lacked just one thing—a word. … This is the marvelous word: bandit.

Freedome in AMERICA

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind .

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

same-sex marriage

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

No one, in an open society, following the rules of that society, had the right to come between an idea and its audience.

Each and every one of these leaders was a Negro citizen of the United States. They had earned the right to guide us, help us, not because their colored forebears helped free us and defend us in the Revolutionary War, in the War of 1812, in the Union Army of Lincoln and Grant, in the First and Second World Wars, in Korea, but because they were part of our whole, part of each of us, with the same stakes and goals.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Berlin llamó simple charlatanería a esta proposición. Si la libertad positiva es un ideal válido, entonces, ¿qué defensa hay contra la afirmación marxista de que el Estado tiene el derecho de infligir terribles castigos a quienes se oponen a su poder de obligar a las personas a actuar contra lo que desean hacer, puesto que deben contribuir al bienestar de la masa de la población?