rights

If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

This wasn__ the Dark Ages, and she wasn__ living in a third world nation where women didn__ have any rights and were treated unequally.

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.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

By confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we give to Him all the rights to our lives.

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an education bureaucrat, or you? Did a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end Jim Crow? No. In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient lies. They saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a single group and they said __ot in my name._ They didn__ wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God__ laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

You told me once that freedom was my right._ I held his gaze. __aybe you should do something with it.

So, take the idea of "rights" and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: the source of a right is power, a right is a function of power. Take two trays of a weighing scale: put a gram on one, and on the other, put a ton. On one side is the "I", on the other is the "WE", the One State. Isn't it clear? Assuming that "I" has the same "rights" compared to the State is exactly the same thing as assuming that a gram can counterbalance a ton. Here is the distribution: a ton has rights, a gram has duties. And this is the natural path from insignificance to greatness: forget that you are a gram, and feel as though you are a millionth part of the ton...

The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

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)

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me.

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.