Restricted Rights Quotes

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

And now, here I was in a country where a right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six in each thousand of its population. For the 994 to express dissatisfaction with the … system and propose to change it, would have made the whole 6 shudder as one man … It seemed to me that what the 994 dupes needed was a new deal.

It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.

My father’s contemporaries, the white ones…had made laws that he must carry a reference book. They also made a law that an Alsatian dog must have a certain ticket on his neck (a dog license) and he must also carry a ‘reference book’. That Alsatian dog was going to die without ever deciding a law that governs his life. So was my father…The discomfort of prison cells is better than the emptiness of walking in the streets as if you were free when you are a dog in the land of your birth.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.

The Netherlands have become a sick country, I have a message for the judges who convicted me: You have restricted the freedom of speech of millions of Dutch and hence convicted everyone. No one trusts you anymore.

I want to earn a contract. I don't want a contract because in the next year I'm a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.