Words matter. These are the best Individual Rights Quotes from famous people such as Lawrence Kohlberg, Heather Brooke, Ayn Rand, Stephen Hadley, Eleanor Roosevelt, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
It’s a zero sum game: the Court either expands individual rights or expands the government’s right to regulate individuals.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
Legally speaking, there are no such things as ‘public rights,’ as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as ‘the public.’
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there – from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security – are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Some of our best and biggest allies in this struggle and fight against radical Islamic terror are Muslims, the vast, vast, vast majority of whom are people who believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, individual rights.
It’s a hard thing to legislate. You can’t legislate good taste and you can’t put a number on it in terms of square footage. It’s a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
Angela Davis’s legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.
I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn’t trust each other – hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.
Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to open the borders for more trades and more immigrants.
The U.N.’s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Zionism needn’t continue, and won’t continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.
