Quotes About Rights

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.