Rights Quotes

“It's voting rights or it's the filibuster.
It's LGBTQ+ rights or it's the filibuster.
It's union rights or it's the filibuster.
It's civil rights or it's the filibuster.
It's our rights or it's the filibuster.

The choice is easy.

(3/18/2021 on Twitter)”
― Cori Bush

“Aren’t you going to tell me my rights? Oh, wait - you’re controlled by a broken system, and I don’t have any. I nearly forgot.”
― M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints

“Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change.”
― Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo

“Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“In South Africa we have so much freedom and rights. I think South Africa It Is the only country where water and electricity is allowed to go on leave or to have some time off.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Education is the mother of freedom; science is her eldest daughter; and her sisters, tolerance and discretion, with rights and responsibilities.”
― Luisa Capetillo

“I am cold
but not numb.
I am silent
but not dumb.
I am not gazing
but not blind.
I am not making love
but impotent I am not.
I will take
a time to coil
and then as a snake
I will strike
at the heart
of the tyranny.
Watch out for me,
my name is DEMOCRACY.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“People online change, pretend, are fake, and not serious. They take things easy, for granted and they are different online than physical. People are mean and vile online, especially when they know they are anonymous. I know we are moving with time and technology. But, do you really think online voting will work? Do you think people will vote for the right party? Do you think people will take it seriously and do you think they will make the right decision? Do you think the party that wins? Will be the right party that deserves to win. If the IEC says, people must vote online? Until we all have integrity. We are not ready for online voting.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“अधिकार खो कर बैठ रहना, यह महा दुष्कर्म है;
न्यायार्थ अपने बन्धु को भी दण्ड देना धर्म है।”
― Maithili Sharan Gupt, जयद्रथ वध

“I have been through Florida’s OSHA system and found I had no legal rights to a safe workplace.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida is the only state I have worked in that attempted to remove my legal OSHA health and safety rights.”
― Steven Magee

“The day I left the DeSoto Solar Farm, the company management team tried to remove my legal rights, including my OSHA rights!”
― Steven Magee

“Neoliberal language is truly emotive, inspiring, empowering, and corrupt. It turns desires into rights and rights into desires. Lie down here, spread your legs. Concentrate on your dreams, if you wish for them hard enough, they’ll come true.”
― Katixa Agirre, Las madres no

“I will be exercising my legal rights to free speech regarding the frauds of the President of the USA!”
― Steven Magee

“When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.”
― John Taylor Gatto, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

“He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and liberties of the next individual or community. - Talila A. Lewis "For Ki'tay D. Davidson, Who LovesUs”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility

“After filing a complaint against a police officer, it is unlikely the police blue brotherhood will ever uphold your legal rights again!”
― Steven Magee

“We won't stand up for our rights. They will take our chairs.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“It was a familiar pantomime--the free press, deplored yet admired. Under their vests the senators were secretly glad that they were unable to dislodge a couple of American photographers. It was what the hearing was about, really--the photographers, squatting imperturbably in front of the men who were plotting to win a war that would preserve for photographers the right to squat imperturbably.”
― E.B. White

“I do not fight for my rights. I fight for human rights, and where lies my rights too.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Your common sense is more important than your rights.”
― Robbie J. Farha

“Do you know your human rights ? How would you celebrate or practice them if you don’t know them ? You can choose this day to study , enquire and to know what are your human rights . We are a danger to ourselves and to others around us. If we don’t know what we should know.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The most devious and sinister acts of historical violence are always committed by tyrants with armies—not citizens with arms.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“If you do not exercise your rights, they will be taken away.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“People like to believe they are better than the society they live in but the majority make no active change in their own lives to better the society by helping others. When homelessness and animal cruelty not only prevail but are seen as 'inevitable' or 'normal' we allow being comfortable in our own lives to let the cruel society we believe ourselves better than to continue its cycles. From this comfort begets cruelty.”
― Isabella Poretsis

“In terms of pure and humble objective morality, a right just feels right to have; however a privilege is, in a way, sort of in the way, and almost feels wrong to have (by principle that if you abuse it, you lose it).”
― Criss Jami

“Our freedom is not a right we have won but a privilege conferred on us by those who sacrificed much that we might have it.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What right do I have to the blessings I’ve received? None. They are not a right—they are a gift.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“God blessing is not by stealing, oppression, and violating the rights of other people.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Public places are for everyone to enjoy. Never allow a bully to infringe upon your right to use.”
― Mitta Xinindlu