Rights Quotes
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.
We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.
When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.
During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia
It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.
I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.
It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online – or in real life.
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me.
Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.
You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.
Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.
...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.
Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.
Always Remember... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.
Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
