Quotes About Rights

Americans and their guns," he muttered.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.

Knowing your full true story, telling your full true story, living your full true story--it seems like the most basic right of every human being.

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

A person's right to be human outweighs anybody's human rights to be religious.

the Enlightenment dream of inevitable human progress, grounded in the claim that we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights, and premised on hope that the arc of history bends toward justice, is now in tatters.

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

The right to health care provides insurance against the misfortune of having bad genes.

Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.

you could well be right. But surely the answer is for women to become more assertive and not let themselves be subjected?

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.