Quotes About Rights

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

feminism is for everybody

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.