Quotes About Rights

some change to the existing constitution. It was committed to devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales, not least because in Scotland the SNP was the chief challenger to its dominant position and it wanted to undermine the SNP's position. It began to advocate a charter of rights and many members began to see some

Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least intolerant, among the Reformers.

Durkheim goes on to argue that the cult of the individual has been misconstrued as the cult of the self-interested ego. Durkheim maintains that a collection of purely egotistical individuals could not form a society at all, that indeed, there has to be the recognition of others' interests, expressed in 'moral individualism' by the importance of equality and rights.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

In an affluent society there ought to be an income floor under every man below which society will not allow him to go – and this ought to come as a right and not as a charity.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

Arabs have the right to visit everywhere in the Land of Israel, and Jews have the right to visit every place in the Land of Israel.

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

After decades of persistent, courageous advocacy - often at risk to their own lives, livelihoods, and safety - African Americans succeeded in securing their right to a voice in our government, and their work laid the foundation for the social justice work of generations to follow.

I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator.

From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right - a voice in our government.