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Quotes About Rights

Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.
~ Max Scheler
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
~ Maxine Waters
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
~ Maxwell Anderson
Smatrao sam da me mora razumjeti, ako me voli, da me mora razumjeti i kad ništa ne kažem, mora biti na mojoj strani i kad nemam pravo. Zaboravljaju?i da bi to trebalo da bude i moja obaveza, okrenuo sam se protiv nje, stavljaju?i ih zajedno na jednu stranu. Sad sam sâm, ima zadovoljstva i u tome. I ne želim više da ih uvjerim, da im objasnim sebe, ho?u da imam pravo. Jer imam pravo, iako to nema nikakva zna?aja.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Njih dvoje kradu svoju srecu, i misle da imaju pravo na nju, ne usudjujuci se da je ucine ljepsom.
~ Meša Selimovi?
pro-choice or pro-abortion.
~ Unknown
Human life must be protected. Yet the abortion question has been turned into a political and a religious war.
~ Unknown
At the podium Faith said, "Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but . . .' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.
~ Megan McCafferty
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
~ Unknown
No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even when the battle is long and the path is steep, a true warrior does not give up. If each one of us does not step forward to claim our rights, we are doomed to an eternal wait in hopes those who would usurp them will become benevolent. The Bible says, WATCH, FIGHT, and PRAY." * * * Although
~ Unknown
James Shannon delivered the convention's opening address, which set the tone for the two-day event. His remarks were nothing if not unequivocal. Any threat to the biblically sanctioned right to hold slaves, Shannon assured his audience, "is just cause of war between the separate states." Those who advocated restrictions on slavery he denounced as "liars, yelping curs, assassins, knaves, Negro thieves and horse thieves."14 After
~ Unknown
The name of the game in the United States is to sue. It's a national pastime. We probably sue more than any other country and thank God we do. It's the little guy who brings the little suit that makes life safer for all of us.
~ Unknown
English was the language of protest and protesting its right to be heard and taken account of before the highest in the land. And the highest of the land used it in 1381, to chop down the revolt of thousands of English speakers.
~ Melvyn Bragg
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
~ Mercedes Lackey
No minority in this country or anywhere else has gained its rights by remaining silent, and no revolution has ever been made by the wary. Or the self-pitying.
~ Unknown
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.
~ Merlin Stone