Rights Quotes - Page 11

• A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  People, Stories, Ignored

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

  James Madison

  Law, People, Liberty

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• We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Followers, Tradition, Should

  "Campaigners at Girl Summit call for end to female genital mutilation" By Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. July 22, 2014.

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• If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Gay

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• If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

  Rand Paul

  Giving Up, Giving, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

  Jose Marti

  Taken

  "Inside the Monster : Writings on the United States and American Imperialism" by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall, (p. 27), 1975.

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• Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

  Penn Jillette

  Government, People, Safety

  Penn Jillette (1997). “Penn & Teller's how to Play in Traffic”, Boulevard

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• I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

  Samuel

  Mean, People, Citizens

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• No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

  Joe Biden

  Ordinary, Care, Constitutional Rights

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• Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

  Michelle Obama

  Issues, Important, Today

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• We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

  Ravi Zacharias

  People, Human Rights, Humans

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Flames

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• My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Years, Lasts

  "Joely Richardson: the 'lies' about my family in new book" by Joely Richardson, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2011.

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• You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

  Elton John

  People, Married, Partnership

  "Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong" by Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 12, 2008.

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• You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

  Sally Field

  Issues, Helping, Feels

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• This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Voting, Childhood, Challenges

  "Settled Law is on Side of Health Reform" by Stephanie Cutter, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 03, 2010.

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Self, People

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• In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Impact, Sweatshops, Movement

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• In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

  Thomas Gumbleton

  Struggle, Impact, Organization

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• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

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• Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two Nations, History, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Religious, Atheist, Children

  "Why do Americans still dislike atheists?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Women, Struggle, Writing

  "Men Explain Things to Me". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Law, Liberty

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• If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Secure, Ifs

  Letter to James Madison, 15 Mar. 1789

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