rights

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

Liberty is always unfinished business.

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

..Thus it can be said that __uman Rights_ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit newer forms of right/s as and when recognized as an inalienable __ight_ , along with wrapped-in duties; duties, on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand, and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other...