#rights

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #rights




I have no great faith in women’s plays. They always seem to me to lack precisely that which women lack, viz: testicles.


George Henry Boker


#faith

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


James Madison


#constitution #freedom #right-to-bear-arms #second-amendment #freedom

ثمة شيء ننساه في زحمة التسابق على حفظ الجُمل الثورية الجميلة. هذا الشيء هو الكرامة الإنسانية. ليس وطني دائماً على حق. ولكنني لا أستطيع أن أمارس حقاً حقيقياً إلا في وطني.


محمود درويش


#freedom #homeland #rights #freedom

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.


Lucille Ball


#communist #freedom #national-heritage #politics #rights

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.


Mercedes Lackey


#freedom #freedom

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.


Faye Wattleton


#feminism #freedom #reproductive-rights #women-s-rights #freedom

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." [Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)]


Louis D. Brandeis


#encroachment #freedom #government #liberty #policy

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.


Nick Harkaway


#democracy #freedom-of-speech #power #privacy #responsibilities

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.


Rivera Sun


#civil-liberty #civil-rights-movement #constitution #constitutional-rights #freedom

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.


Zarina Bibi


#taxpayers-rights #war #freedom