Rights Quotes

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an education bureaucrat, or you? Did a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end Jim Crow? No. In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient lies. They saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a single group and they said “not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.

Glenn Beck

I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.

Jay Woodman

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

John Ralston Saul

I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.

Flann O'Brien

This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.

Missy Lyons

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Flann O'Brien

I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Article 191. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).

Ayn Rand

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Alfred Tennyson

There will always be wars," Maggie told him."Yes," Reeve replied. "But there will also be brothers, sisters, comrades and lovers as well, and they are who we fight for. Our comrades--our brothers--beside us on the field; our wives and families at home. Wallace wishes for freedom. It is a gife given by God and should not be taken by men; it is the right of every man to be free and it is our duty to protect that right so that our children may know what it is to be free and not live under oppression.

Hazel B. West

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.

James Carlos Blake

When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!

Kenneth Eade

By confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we give to Him all the rights to our lives.

Sunday Adelaja

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

Craig R. Key

The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

Carl Friedrich Bahrdt

The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from verbal abuse and physical harm. Their children’s rights are somewhat smaller but substantial nonetheless; children can’t have an equal say in decisions because of their limited knowledge and experience, but they do have the right to live free from abuse and fear, to be treated with respect, and to have their voices heard on all issues that concern them.

Lundy Bancroft

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

Bob Marley

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds, the effective exercise of a right springing not from the individual who possesses it, but from other men who consider themselves as being under a certain obligation towards him. Recognition of an obligation makes it effectual. An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much. It makes nonsense to say that men have, on the one hand, rights, and on the other hand, obligations. Such words only express differences in point of view. The actual relationship between the two is as between object and subject. A man, considered in isolation, only has duties, amongst which are certain duties towards himself. A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.

Simone Weil

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.

Edmund Burke

If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..

Alcurtis Turner

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

Ron Brackin

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

Carl-John X Veraja

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.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

Joe Biden

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.

John Eliot

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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.

Émilie Du Châtelet

Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.

M.F. Moonzajer

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

Karen Traviss

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.

Christina Engela

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

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.

Oswald Chambers

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

DaShanne Stokes

Whether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn’t, and how far we’ll go to protect, or take, it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights

Sunday Adelaja

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.

Dimitri Verhulst

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Daniel Pennac

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.

Roger Pilon

I have to have a degree of not doing a degree"!

― Mr. Ashfaq

The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.

Bernard Knox

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.

Samantha Shannon

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Anton Chekhov

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.

Alexandra Bracken

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

Benjamin Franklin

That’s the worst part, that so many would not value their own unique abilities, not value themselves, much less respect those who have fought and died so that they could live free to make the choice to surrender that precious right of choice –long with their gift and individuality.”She gripped the blanket in a fist. “I often think that the y deserve everything they’re going to get. I only regret that those of us who value what we have will suffer the same fate. They’re the ones I fight for. The rest of them be damned.”Alex swallowed at the pain so clearly evident in her voice. “We have people like that in our world, too. People who say that freedom is no longer practical, that we must surrender it for a greater common good.”“Fear them,” she whispered. “They are the heart of evil. They tolerate tyranny, excuse it, compromise with it. In doing so they always bring savagery and death upon the rest of us.

Terry Goodkind

So, take the idea of "rights" and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: the source of a right is power, a right is a function of power. Take two trays of a weighing scale: put a gram on one, and on the other, put a ton. On one side is the "I", on the other is the "WE", the One State. Isn't it clear? Assuming that "I" has the same "rights" compared to the State is exactly the same thing as assuming that a gram can counterbalance a ton. Here is the distribution: a ton has rights, a gram has duties. And this is the natural path from insignificance to greatness: forget that you are a gram, and feel as though you are a millionth part of the ton...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Louis L'Amour

You have no right to be silenced.

James DeVita

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Keith Ablow

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

Alvin A. Bullock

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.

Bryant McGill

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

Pat Conroy

Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion.

William Lloyd Garrison

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