Rights Quotes - Page 2

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right.

Henry George

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

Thomas Jefferson

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Cyril James

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

John F Kennedy

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Hannah Arendt

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

Edmund Burke

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Cicero

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

Søren Kierkegaard

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.

E.P. Thompson

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.

Robert G. Ingersoll

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Eric Hoffer

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.

Mary McCarthy

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Wylie

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F Kennedy

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Emma Lazarus

To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.

Pietro Bellusch

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Viscount Samuel

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Harry Weinberger

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

Woodrow Wilson

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

John F Kennedy

Liberty is always unfinished business.

Anonymous

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

Robert Browning

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.

Bob Dylan

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine

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.

Felix Frankfurter

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Learned Hand

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out "rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F Kennedy

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

John Milton

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

J.S.B. Morse

..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit newer forms of right/s as and when recognized as an inalienable ‘right’ , along with wrapped-in duties; duties, on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand, and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other...

Henrietta Newton Martin

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

DaShanne Stokes

This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world. A vote is a voice. I think you underestimate yourself, Queenie. This is your fight, same as it is mine.

Sharon Biggs Waller

Over the years I have come to understand three things about the police: 1) They cover up virtually everything involving a police officer. 2) They will not enforce the laws for people that they do not like. 3) They will target people that they do not like for prosecution using various techniques that include unwarranted stops, drug testing, faked police reports, tickets, fines, blatantly mislead the judge at court, and removal of USA federal rights.

Steven Magee

Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality.

James C. Dobson

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

Criss Jami

Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any signs of weakness were observable in the workers’ organizations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or to abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance. Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution.

Rudolf Rocker

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Gloria Steinem

Any human being has a fundamental right to fight for their rights, but that (own right) can not include anything that is fundamentally trying to deny others what is their fundamental right.The root of Tyranny of Majority that Telangana is witnessing in India since 1956 and is expected to end in early 2014

Venkat Gandhi

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

There are no secrets on the Internet

Paul Babicki

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and the common.

Rami Ollaik

Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

Joseph P. Sekula

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.

David K. Shipler

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