Right to Dignity Quotes

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

Indigence in itself is neither a source of rights or a basis for denying them.

Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes - they have all been given a voice by the Human Rights Act.

The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

The right to be free from unreasonable discriminations belongs … to each particular person. Where a dining car is available to passengers holding tickets entitling them to use it, each such passenger is equally entitled to its facilities.

No one shall be sentenced to death, tortured or otherwise treated in a manner violating human dignity.

The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.