Fundamental Rights Quotes
20 Fundamental Rights quotes by 18 unique authors
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination…
— B R Ambedkar
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The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take…
— Wendy O. Williams
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We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.
— Unknown Author
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to…
— Arthur Curley
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Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.
— Elena Kagan
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The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
— Ted Olson
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Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling…
— Unknown Author
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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil…
— Lyman Trumbull
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May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
— Pope Francis
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The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down…
— David Boies
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In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to…
— Claudio Hummes
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The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron,…
— Walter J. Phillips
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
— Al Franken
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What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
— Tom G. Palmer
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The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
— David Blunkett
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has…
— Barbara Boxer
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If so many brave men and women could wear our countrys uniform and sacrifice their lives for our most fundamental rights...then surely we can do…
— Michelle Obama
Who Wrote These Fundamental Rights Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Fundamental Rights Quotes as follows: