Rights Entitlement Quotes

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

Indigence in itself is neither a source of rights or a basis for denying them.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end