#right

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#communist #freedom #national-heritage #politics #rights

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#freedom #freedom

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right. ↗

— Faye Wattleton

#feminism #freedom #reproductive-rights #women-s-rights #freedom

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

#freedom #honor #life #rights #freedom

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you. ↗

— Andrew Wilkow

#personal-responsibility #rights #freedom

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

#equality #fate #freedom #human-rights #humanity

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religious #rights #freedom

Then I will speak upon the ashes. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#freedom #women-s-rights #freedom

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." [Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)] ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#encroachment #freedom #government #liberty #policy