Quotes About Rights

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

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.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago