Right To Life Quotes - Page 3

• It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

  Chris Gardner

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Thinking, Independence

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• Our code is different from the warrior code. It reaches across boundaries. To us, every cat is simply that — a cat, with the same right to life as any other. We made a promise to heal and protect, remember?

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Warrior, Promise

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• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Art, Fighting, Giving

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• This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

  Philip Alston

  Accountability, United States, Air Power

  "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.

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• The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Wise, Killing Someone

  "On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) and Abraham Skorka, May 7, 2013.

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• To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Pro Life, Impossible

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

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• The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.380, Penguin

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• More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Book, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Differences, Liberty, Individualism

  "Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA". www.strike-the-root.com. March 01, 2004.

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• There is a choice, and it is a choice on life. I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who's standing for the right to life. It's a principle that that you embrace.

  Mike Pence

  Choices, Proud, Embrace

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

  Peter Drucker

  Issues, Groups, Moral

  "The Age of Social Transformation". The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, No. 5., November 1994.

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• I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who is standing for the right to life.

  Mike Pence

  Proud, Trump, Standing

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.

  George Weigel

  Self, Giving, Interviews

  Source: eppc.org

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• If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.

  Michael Badnarik

  Ifs

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• I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

  Ben Stein

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

  "Economist Ben Stein". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 30, 2012.

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• All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

  Peter Kreeft

  Children, Race, Unborn Child

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• Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

  Jesse Jackson

  Views, Order, People

  "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.

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• I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

  John Irving

  Book, People, Way

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

  Michael Moriarty

  Golden, Court, Infanticide

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• The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

  Dan Savage

  Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness, Liberty

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

  Bart Stupak

  Language, Drafting, Nun

  "Rep. Stupak Dismisses Letter from Nuns" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Order, Issues

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Fundamentals, Sustainability

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• I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The Catholic Church may espouse its opinion on abortion to the members of its congregation. But they are in violation of separation of church and state when they try to proselytize their abortion politics on people who are not Catholics.

  John Irving

  People, Abortion, Catholic

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