Quotes About Rights

On their way to jail, to deportation from the country, or to expulsion from school, those who confront the muscle of the state frequently see their rights bruised, their liberties wounded. This book is about some of those people. Therefore, it is about all of us.

If every American school taught the Bill of Rights in a clear and compelling way, if every child knew the fundamental rules that guide the relationships between the individual and the state, then every citizen would eventually feel the reflexive need to resist every violation. We had better begin now, for rights that are not invoked are eventually abandoned.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Que todos somos iguales ante la ley si pagamos lo mismo.

We're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount

Cu to?ii suntem egali în fa?a legii – dac? pl?tim egal.

Emancipation was a mistake;" and these fast writers drew along with them a large body, who would fain be slaveholders themselves. We must never lose sight of the fact that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only because the law forbids the practice

One way to curtail men's proprietary mindset is to empower women -a trend that started with first-wave feminists who ushered in women's right to vote and continues today with women's increasing access to their own resources-.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.