Access Rights Quotes

At present … the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the walker enjoys comparative freedom. But possibly the day will come when it will be partitioned off into so-called pleasure-grounds, in which a few will take a narrow and exclusive pleasure only,—when fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps and other engines invented to confine men to the public road, and walking over the surface of God’s earth shall be construed to mean trespassing on some gentleman’s grounds. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.

A man has as much right to go across a river as to go up and down the river.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.

While, of course, you cannot discriminate between nationals of member states, access to the labour market does not mean automatic access to social security systems.

I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.

If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

It is important to note that Internet access is not a necessity in the day-to-day lives of Americans and doesn't even come close to the threshold to be considered a basic human right.

When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.

We have an access problem; the wrong people have the access.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'

You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian — and only the parent or guardian.

Whether you happen to be a gay man in Tanzania or someone who's imprisoned in Tanzania, it's your human right to have access to health care.

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

One of the problems of living in a free country is that you have free access to everything.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.