Quotes About Rights

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

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

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.