Quotes About Rights

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.