Quotes About Rights

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

The existing [whistleblower] laws completely fail to adequately offer protection in a meaningful or legitimate way, but that does not mean any individual has the right to decide what is best for others. There is a process that does exist and steps need to be taken to first try."

Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

body, will be able to cherish freedom, revere the rights of others, and practice its highest talent, love, when the earth is sterile from man-made poisons, the air tainted, and the race sick and dying.

In the aftermath of the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, the Texas Legislature and state courts passed laws giving clubs, organizations, and businesses the authority to refuse entry or services to any person, for any reason.