Asserting Rights Quotes

There are voices and they must be heard.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

Mr. [Donald] Trump has every right to say that didn't happen.

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

I feel like your generation is like, "We deserve a place at this table, we have a right to be here," whereas when I was in my 20s I was like, "Who am I?" It's exciting because I do see a lot of young women feeling empowered.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

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

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.