Rights Assertion Quotes

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking responsibility for other individuals, recognition that no democracy works if they're weaklings.

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.

You can’t just say you have rights. You have to use them to prove that you have them.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.