Rights Denial Quotes

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

I'll always push for what I believe in. That's what you're supposed to do. If you're an American, you're supposed to be part of the political process, especially if you've been denied it.

The more the system advanced the more clearly it appeared to me that the framers of it did not consider that either states or men had any rights at all.

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

The Armenians [have] been decieved and ... their rights have not been recognized.

If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.