One’s interest or need does not annul other’s right.

If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then...

God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.No human being is superior over another.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement...

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian’s fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens’ private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

There is no democracy in physics. We can’t say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything.

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony...

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it’s a miracle that the police have...

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

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

What about my rights? What about a person’s privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why...

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which...

I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours...

I’ve been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children’s charities over the years.

Communities don’t have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

There are no secrets on the Internet

If you don’t have the rights, you can’t do the show.

I Have a Dream… someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream… someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored...

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

We support President Truman’s civil rights program.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

I’m always trying to push for women’s rights.

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that...

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.”What sort of tools?”More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance....

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men are equal, then all men are of...

Well, I’m not here to impinge on anybody else’s lifestyle. If I’m in a place where I know I’m going to harm somebody’s health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go...

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.

Freedom… Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used...

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to...