Rights Quotes

Everyone needs the gay in their life. Someone who says, 'kiddo, this look is not the one!' But don't get it twisted! Gay men were not put on this earth just to serve as your personal stylist. We have our wants and needs that have to be met on a human level. Friendship is a two-way street

I’d also like to call him my husband. I’m not the biggest fan of the word “partner”: It either means that we run a business together or we’re cowboys. “Boyfriend” seems fleeting, like maybe we met two weeks ago. I’ve been saying “better half” for as long as I’ve been able to. I think it’s a little self-deprecating and clearly defines that we’re in a relationship, but it would be nice to say “my husband."

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!

Rise Like Lions After Slumber,
In An Unvanquishable Number,
Shake Your Chains To Earth Like Dew,
Which In Sleep Had Fallen On You,
Ye Are Many! They Are Few!

Rise Like Lions After Slumber,
In An Unvanquishable Number,
Shake Your Chains To Earth Like Dew,
Which In Sleep Had Fallen On You,
Ye Are Many! They Are Few!

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Numerous comments made by Pastor Jones are evidence of his unacceptable behaviour. Coming to the UK is a privilege, not a right, and we are not willing to allow entry to those whose presence is not conducive to the public good.

No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog.