33 quotes found
“I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.”
“I can hear the roar of women's silence”
“People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence ...”
“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.”
“National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.”
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexis...”
“Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.”
“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”
“Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservatio...”
“And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.”
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary...”
“Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion.”
“The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have...”
“Equal rights for all special privileges for none.”
“Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.”
“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.”
“Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.”
“The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”
“Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.”
“Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)”
