Quotes About Rights

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

Neither do we. We're not cops with guns. We're lawyers with subpoenas.

I think children have a right not to be raped, and their parents have the right to protect them. I think little girls are special, and if mine was tied to a tree and gang raped by two dopeheads I'm sure it would make me crazy. I think good and decent fathers should have a constitutional right to execute any pervert who touches their children.

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while those who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

You see, Mr. Snowden, the Constitution says, quite clearly, that you cannot imprison a poor person for failing to pay his debts. I don't expect you to know this because you work for a bunch of crooks. However, trust me on this, the federal judges understand it because they've read the Constitution, most of them anyway. Debtors' prisons are illegal. Ever heard of the Equal Protection Clause?

As she watched it leave, she felt like the helpless victim in a backward country where the police ran rampant and rights were nonexistent. It was simply wrong. She was being bullied by the cops because of her association with Jeff. Now her property was being confiscated, and her clients' confidentiality was compromised. She had never felt so helpless.

The road to justice is filled with barriers and land mines, most of them created by men and women who claim to be seeking justice.

The rights of the homeless would be protected, as long as they could find us. And their voices would be heard through ours.

We live in a world of rights that has no sense of purpose; we live in a world of tolerance that has no sense of dignity for those tolerated or conscience concerning what is to be tolerated; we live in a world of leisure and squander it on empty pursuit; we live in a world of comfort and convenience where we can accumulate anything we want except that which matters most.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.

A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, Let's chase the bastard off! We have the right to free speech but he doesn't!

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I

They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others

We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

It's a vicious cycle, Mr. Griffin, and I don't know how we'll get out of it. They put us low and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low we can't deserve our rights.

There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're not only free to practice the religion of our choice, we should be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

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I find it a pity that freedom to disagree was not tolerated here today." Cooper

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.