Quotes About Rights

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Your life is more important than anything. It is your God-given right to expect and receive happiness.

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Absolute liberty, just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, is the thing that we stand in need of.

Democracy is the Freedom of Humanity in all aspects of Life.

Freedom is one of the priceless gifts given to man but we must fight everyday to claim it.

Freedom without liberty is a body without soul.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Freedom is not enough.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.