#rights

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. ↗

— Pasquier Quesnel

#blind #others #regulated #rights #upon

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

#free #freedom #man #may #potential

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#half #iran #men #per #rights

The French revolution taught us the rights of man. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#french revolution #man #revolution #rights #taught

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#inspirational #lesbian #lgbt #beauty

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#addressing #being #black #brought #christians

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

#christian #civil #civil rights #denomination #extended

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#considered #constitution #criminal #dangerous #defend

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. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#also #because #considering #five #individual

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#against #animal #animal rights #because #how