Quotes About Rights

The principle that Veeck pointed to was a simple one. Since every major league game involved two competing clubs, and since the selling of television rights required no investment on the part of the home club, he reasoned it was only fair that those rights fees be split equally in each market between the home and visiting clubs.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional "state of nature." In that state, Locke contended, free and equal persons hold broad rights to life, liberty, and property. However, they lack the means of enforcing those rights.

Defend freedom of speech against radical Islam. Americans should feel as secure in their right to criticize Islam as they are in their right to criticize any other religion.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

The Liberty Principle: It is a higher moral principle to always seek liberty with someone else's liberty in mind, and never seek liberty when it leads to someone else's loss of liberty through force or fraud. The Liberty Principle is an extrapolation from the fundamental principle of all liberty as practiced in Western society: The freedom to believe and act as we choose so long as our beliefs and actions do not infringe on the equal freedom of others.

as the Rutgers University legal scholar Gary Francione has done in his 2008 book Animals as Persons, where he outlined in logical detail why sentient nonhumans should legally be regarded as persons: "They are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.

Switzerland has changed the status of animals to "beings" instead of "things," and Germany was the first nation to grant animals a constitutional right when they added the words "and animal" to a provision obliging the state to respect and protect human dignity.

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Constitutional applicability equal to U.S. Citizens under Law is as much for a one person solitarily as it is so for the masses. Tides will part to right reason and can do so of a single idea.

If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

and there can't be an area of human activity as utterly boring as the law.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the one from 1793:

Evet, kad?nlar?n da erkekler gibi çirkin olabilme hakk?na kavuÅŸmalar? için mücadele etmeleri gerekiyor. Otuz ya??n üstündeki bir han?ma yaÅŸ sorulmaz diye geçiÅŸtirilen ve sanki yüz k?zart?c? bir hastal?k söz konusuymuÅŸ gibi bu konuda en ufak an??t?rmadan bile kaç?n?lan bu iÄŸrenç uzlaÅŸmay? b?rakmak gerek art?k.

In one particularly witty, stinging passage, he wrote, "Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.

eight other states already have what are known as "no promo homo" laws, which, like the original "don't say gay" bill, restrict to varying degrees what educators can say about homosexuality.

I am standing on another soapbox making the case for tolerating people who oppose same-sex marriage.

I'll look at why LGBT groups in Washington have asked for so little for so many years—and gotten nothing—and why and how we must change that and demand full equality.

it wasn't until recently that we saw marriage as a winning issue rather than a losing one.

Getting those rights is essential. But, as Kenji Yoshino notes in his discussing of covering, winning rights is only one part of the battle. To keep them, we have to change the culture, and that means resisting the demand that we cover and conform.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

When most scholars, legal analysts, and political commentators speak of the need to "balance civil liberties and national security," they don't mean that at all. What they really mean is: civil liberties always and at all times outweigh national security,