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I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
— Boyd Rice
As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.
— Victoria Gray Adams
We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.
— Takayuki Yamaguchi
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.
— Jalal Talabani
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
— Dan Savage
In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silent enim leges inter arma — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
— Mary Robinson
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
— Albert Einstein
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
— Malala Yousafzai
The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
— Eliot Engel
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
— Alan Moore
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
— Ayn Rand
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
— John Boyle O'Reilly
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
— Thomas Jefferson
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
— Audre Lorde
EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.
— Abner Cole
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
— Adam Michnik
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.
— Pamela Madsen
We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.
— Allan Dare Pearce
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
— Taslima Nasrin
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.
— Newton Lee
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
— Michael Anti
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
The answer to 1984 is 1776
— Alex E. Jones
Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.
— Donna Goddard
Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.
— Joshua Wong
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.
— Hillel Neuer
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
— Arlen Specter
Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.
— Shinzo Abe
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
— George Soros
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
— Salman Rushdie
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society
once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. — William O. Douglas
once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. — William O. Douglas
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
— Jimmy Wales
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
— Felix Frankfurter
The freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.
— Kevin Alan Lee
Freedom ... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!
— Joseph P. Sekula
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women
— Sima Samar
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
— Aberjhani
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
— Julian Bond
As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.
— DaShanne Stokes
freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob.
— Sinclair Lewis
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
— Ernest Istook
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
— David Harvey
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.
— Ron Brackin
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
— Ayn Rand
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
— Leonard Peltier
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
— Mercedes Lackey
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
— Liu Xiaobo
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.
— Ayn Rand
You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
— Scott Howard Phillips
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.
— A.E. Samaan
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
— John Lewis
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
— Joichi Ito
If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
— Noam Chomsky
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Law without reason is criminal.
— Criss Jami
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
— Abe Fortas
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.
— Margaret Atwood
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
— Taslima Nasrin
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.
— Vahid Asghari
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
— James Madison
Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
— Barack Obama
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
— Benjamin Rush
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.
— Zarina Bibi
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
— Sojourner Truth
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
— Dag Hammarskjold
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
— Edward R. Murrow
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
— Robert Cheeke
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
— Ernestine Rose
Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
— Aniruddha Sastikar