#entitled

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. ↗

— Kay Granger

#definition #dusk #entitled #few #granted

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#able #another #degree #dishonesty #entitled

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#did #entitled #get #little #little money

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ↗

— Lucius Accius

#death #disgrace #entitled #escape #life

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#called #collect #community #entitled #fair

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. ↗

— James Dickey

#deprived #detachment #entitled #feel #feeling

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#determined #entitled #freedom #history #i

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#deal #demand #entitled #get #going

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#christian religion #christians #denominations #entitled #equal

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#apart #argument #came #case #certainly