Quotes About Rights

Those who have punished others without a hearing,' they insisted, 'ought not to have the right to be heard themselves.

Mine ends with a culminating moment in 212 CE, when the emperor Caracalla took the step of making every single free inhabitant of the Roman Empire a full Roman citizen, eroding the difference between conqueror and conquered and completing a process of expanding the rights and privileges of Roman citizenship that had started almost a thousand years earlier. SPQR

these polluters shall have the sole right to decide what: kind of shit, poison, toxic or hazardous waste they will dump on us. If, at some later date, the tribe should adopt stricter standards for waste disposal, then we must compensate those bastards for the costs arising from the new rules.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

Same-sex couples should be able to get married.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Tener derechos no quiere decir reclamarlos en forma vigorosa y a gritos en todos los casos. Lo que sí significa es que tienes una base de seguridad que te permite tomar buenas decisiones sobre cómo comportarte.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

In the United States, toddlers and preschoolers who might have a physical, sensory, cognitive, or emotional disability are guaranteed the right to a professional assessment and educational services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.

We have the right to "Freedom of Peace".

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.