Quotes About Rights

I happen to believe that no one inherently deserves anything, except basic human rights, and not to have to watch an ad before you watch a trailer on YouTube.

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Modest women have rights too, Coach,' I can't help adding.

Feminism" means taking for granted that woman and man are meant to complement each other while sharing equal dignity, equal rights, and equal humanity—nothing more and nothing less.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Para él, quienes no lo apoyan, no son miembros de la oposición que confronta todo gobierno democrático, sino enemigos mortales que no tienen derecho a tener ningún rol político.

Yo conozco bien este país. »Los venezolanos aman su libertad y, aunque haya descontento, prefieren la democracia.

El uso legítimo de la violencia es un derecho que los ciudadanos conceden al Estado a cambio de que les dé protección, orden público y estabilidad.

Oppression is unjustly distributed.

The knowledge of the little child's mental development has to become widely diffused, for only then will education be able to speak with a new voice, and say to the world with authority: "The laws of life are such and such. They can not be ignored. You must act in conformity with them, for they proclaim the rights of man which are universal and common to all.

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

Stop the fantasy we need to be defending freedom, because we don't have freedom in our own country yet.

Free is what every creature longs to be and has a right to be.

We have freedom of the press; I think it's guaranteed in the Constitution or something."   The

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

The nobles were fighting men, the descendants of fighting men. They were proud of their vassalage, a word we have tinged with derogation. But today most of us are, have been, or will be employees; no employee has the right to look down on a vassal.

En todas partes el hombre ha tomado conciencia de sí mismo como un animal de tránsito y lucha desesperadamente por afirmar su derecho a lo mejor del mundo durante el breve período que habita en él.

I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.