1,033 Quotes About Rights

In the nineteenth century, a woman who owned property, made high wages, had sex outside of marriage, performed or received oral sex, used birth control, consorted with men of other races, danced, drank, or walked alone in public, wore makeup, perfume or stylish clothes–and was not ashamed–was probably a whore. In fact, prostitutes won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted.

Once we remove God from the equation, no-one has any God given rights.Survival of the fittest. Get it?

One, who avoids, to fight for the rights of its own; it might never be pure and sure, to fight for the rights of others since that establishes and illustrates falsehood and dodge to itself.

What exactly were the rights of the dying? Were they really so boundless?

More than just the habits, it’s the rights that someone gives you over themselves that defines a relationship and its depth. This is so much more important than just living together! We might live with someone for ages and still not know each other much because we never gave each other the right to explore, to look deep within ourselves, to question, to fight or to argue! There cannot be love without these rights.

The fight for greater equality is not a zero sum game; demonizing all members one group to the advantage of another is not progress but oppression.

We have every right to create our own destiny, but none to interfere in someone else's.

If he has given you all the rights on him, giving him a commitment should be the least you can do for him...

But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.