Quotes about Rights

Conservative or liberal, we are all constitutionalists.

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.

For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It's embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man. It finds

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.