Quotes About Rights

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to "Get Off My Property." News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.   I

I support gay marriage because I support marriage.

Hell, this administration has been busy enough trying to trade in our rights to make us more like everyone else!

That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.

The preacher rose high on his elbow. Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.

Crooks avoided the whole subject now. "Maybe you guys better go," he said. "I ain't sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don't like 'em.

Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.

Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.

The families learned what rights must be observed—the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the right to talk and to listen; the right to refuse help or to accept, to offer help or to decline it; the right of son to court and daughter to be courted; the right of the hungry to be fed; the rights of the pregnant and the sick to transcend all other rights.

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Justice has a price. That price is freedom.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.