Right To Life Quotes - Page 2

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Taken, Men

  "The Rights of the Colonists". The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, history.hanover.edu. November 20, 1772.

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• I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Character, America

  Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Outcomes, Election

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Abortion

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• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Humane Way, Rights, People

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• Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Pursuit Of Happiness, College

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Dignity, Intrusion

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint”, p.23, New World Library

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• The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

  Paul Ryan

  Rights, Government, Community

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• We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Rights, Abortion

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• All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Greatness, Blow

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• Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Mean, Men

  "Looking Forward".

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• All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Liberty

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• Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Gay, Assault Weapons

  "Glenn Beck blasts Gov. Cuomo's remark against conservatives". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Decision, Circumstances

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• Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Reality, Elderly

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• A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Stars, Water

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

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• Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Catholic, Age

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.

  Roger Casement

  Love, Flower, Rights

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• You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.

  Janet E. Smith

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Broken, Nihilism, Rubbish

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• The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Opposites, Pro Life, Abortion

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With The Authorities And The Diplomatic Corps in Hofburg, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 7, 2007.

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• The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.

  Ayn Rand

  Thug, Men, Self

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