Quotes About Rights

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Although the denazification process was widely reviled in Germany and beyond, in the aftermath of the Cold War, the logic of Nuremberg was revived in postcolonial contexts under the name of transitional justice, which repackages criminalization and victim's justice in the language of human rights. The

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

In the new world order of the Wise Men of the West—the most powerful of the Genuine Globalists—the rights and freedoms of the individual would be based on positive law: that is, on laws passed by a majority of those who will be entitled to vote on the various levels of the new system of governmental administration and local organization. Ultimate rule, however, will be far removed from the ordinary individual.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for… human rights.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

The age of democratic revolutions inaugurated by the American revolution made the existence of slavery and servile labor questionable for the first time in western history

It was nicer that way. knowing that something called rights existed. The right to health care, to good and to schooling for our children . . . For us things were good; for others they were bad. Especially for the landowners, who are the ones who suffered most when we demanded our rights. They spend more and earn less. Besides, once we learned about the existence of rights we also learned not to bow our heads when the bosses scolds us. We learned to look them in the face.

dime por qué nuestras grandes naciones pueden enviar legiones de soldados a la guerra, pero son incapaces de hacer lo mismo cuando se trata de salvar los niños (...). Alguna cosa ha cambiado. Para mí vivir ya no es un derecho, se ha convertido en un privilegio

Ours is not a justice system. Ours is a legal system.

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

during the winter of 2012–2013, the Federal Court ruled that Métis and non– Status Indians had the same rights as Status Indians under the Constitution. This gives

The Aboriginal opportunity today is the equivalent of the Quebec issue in the 1960s and 70s. As with the francophones of that era, so the Aboriginals today are ready for a struggle to right the wrongs. And a growing number of non-Aboriginal Canadians are with them.

First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.

Injustice, then, is simply inequalities that are not to the benefit of all.

The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed. Edna O'Brien