Quotes About Rights

rights are for the people whom we fear or dislike because they are the people who need them.

when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and protecting property rights...

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

However, if the servant gets up after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the servant is his property.

If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.

But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our fatherís brothers.”

“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their fatherís brothers, and transfer their fatherís inheritance to them.