1,033 Quotes About Rights

It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

I am not interested in having freedom from burdens. I don't need any authority to free me from responsibility.I am not interested in having freedoms within an authoritarian's parameters. I am only interested in self-determination.I have only respect for liberty as I am a libertarian.

Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.