Rights Quotes
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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
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"Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."
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Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.
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The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.
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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'
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No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level... “No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level... A Power which interferes with its people only in certain respects cannot increase its warlike potential beyond certain limits. To pass them, it must revolutionize those respects and give itself fresh prerogatives.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
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What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
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The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.
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Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
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When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
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This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement
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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
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I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
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A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
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Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
