Quotes About Rights

The political correctness of diversity as a core value essentially cheats some children out of their right to be fully engaged in American society.

Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings," he said at the ceremony. "It is a duty to stay close to victims and guarantee their rights." Urbani

Too often, religions think that unless religious people are allowed special powers and privileges to advance religion and affect the lives of many people outside of church, they are not getting legal equality.

Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

It's Mississippi, stupid," Neville said. "They can do whatever they like.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. And the one condition, it turns out, is money. If you have a lot of it, the legal road you get to travel is well lit and beautifully maintained. If you don't, it's a dark alley and most Americans would be shocked to find out what's at the end of it.

It turns out that it's a waste of absolute political power to simply throw undocumented aliens over the border. When you have a group of people who have no rights at all, the more inspired corporate solution is to extract as much value from them as possible. That can be money, that can be property, and if they don't have either of those things left, you take their time and labor.

If you're a person of means, you get full service for all ten amendments, and even a few that aren't listed. But if you owe, if you rent, you get a slightly thinner, more tubercular version of the Fourth Amendment, the First Amendment, the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, and so on.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. And the one condition, it turns out, is money. If you have a lot of it, the legal road you get to travel is well lit and beautifully maintained. If you don't, it's a dark alley and most Americans would be shocked to find out what's at the end of it.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

More and more often, we all make silent calculations about who is entitled to what rights, and who is not.

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

National security was invoked so freely that the First Amendment had become an empty promise.

Gun control was never about safety: it was just about taking power away from ordinary Americans," said Carson. "It's to make it safe for the police, in a police state.

In the words of Ben Franklin, let me remind you that 'they that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I think that we have to keep in mind that the purpose of the Bill of Rights was to forever put our right to control our own destiny beyond the reach of majority rule,

you have the right to feel however you like, but not the right to act however you want.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of southern whites. All of the Republican presidential nominees in the future would harvest racist votes, whether consciously or not, because from then on the GOP would be the party of white privilege, and the Democrats, of minority rights.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.