Quotes About Rights

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

the principle of prior appropriation, which held that water belonged to whoever first put it to use, regardless of the user's proximity to the source, and that the priority remained in force as long as the use continued. The rule of prior appropriation, in its simplest formulation, was "first in time, first in right.

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

For Jabotinsky, the confrontation between Jews and Arabs was rooted in the fact that both sides shared historical rights to the same land. This was not a struggle between right and wrong, but between right and right.

The second decade of the twenty-first century—just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, early LGBT rights theorists, ignited the idea of same-sex freedom in 1868—we find ourselves in a heady, global maelstrom of unimaginable liberation and continued stark oppression.

The progress of LGBT rights is often directly tied to—sometimes through indirect routes—multiple fights for human dignity and freedom.

the slow, complicated evolution of how we as humans decide to define and act on an agreed definition of human rights that would be functional and useful for all national cultures. So far this has been an impossibility.

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

John Locke's guiding axiom was that all men have a natural right to the fruits of their labor. A corollary to this logic was that landlords have a right only to what they themselves produce, not to exploit and appropriate the labor of their tenants:

American civil religion values human liberty and rights as a divine gift and considers it, perhaps on par with strength, as one of the highest national values. The protection and furtherance of freedom is therefore a divine mandate and mission.

James Madison's logic in 1787 still holds, a further offering of this form will someday be made available to the world. Madison states: …extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult to all who feel it to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other.42

When Franklin D. Roosevelt launched Social Security in 1935, he did not present it as expressing the mutual obligation of citizens to one another. ... Rather than offer a communal rationale, FDR argued that such rights were essential to "true individual freedom," adding, "necessitous men are not free men.

The debate over the priority of the right over the good is ultimately a debate about the meaning of human freedom.

El Estado no debería ratificar —con sus políticas o sus leyes— ninguna concepción determinada de la vida buena, sino proporcionar un marco neutral de derechos, dentro del cual las personas puedan escoger sus propios valores y fines.

ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom. And

Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice.

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History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment.

By the middle of the summer, the team was even bearing his name. An early name-the-team contest had resulted in the club announcing, in the spring of 1946, that it would be known as the Cleveland Panthers. But when the owner of a failed minor league franchise of the '30s claimed rights to the name, Brown decided to ditch it.