Right To Freedom Quotes

#1. Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Kailash Satyarthi

#2. Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit
in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

Chinua Achebe

#3. Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

Edmund Burke

#4. We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Boyle Roche

#5. You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.

George Brandis

#6. Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

Miroslav Volf

#8. Isocrates: Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

Michael Lewis

#9. Ryvah (Rahy-va), noun. 1. A state of being in which your own life ceases to have value except to become a tool of fate, whose only purpose is to fight for, and if need be, die for, the absolute unconditional right to freedom and love. 2. The ultimate pursuit of freedom.

M.J. Leonard

#10. We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention

Monica Lewinsky

#11. The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty ... The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

Samuel Adams

#12. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

Dalai Lama

#14. The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.

Thomas I. Emerson

#15. When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American people while I was gone?

Kenneth Eade

#16. Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organization, are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. On this law democracy stands or falls.

Stieg Larsson

#17. The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. "The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

Cory Doctorow

#18. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Kat Von D.

#19. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

Helen Keller

#20. If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

Jacob M. Appel

#21. The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

Tom McClintock

#22. Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

Jan Koum

#23. It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

Vallabhbhai Patel

#24. The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#25. The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Henry Charles Carey

#26. Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with ... Stop trying to steer the river.

Deepak Chopra

#27. ...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

Romain Gary

#28. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

Sitting Bull

#29. So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.

Tegan Quin

#30. We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#31. Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

Brian Wilson

#33. A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men;
it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

Ayn Rand

#34. Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

Benjamin Barber

#35. If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly.

Abdullah Bashir

#36. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

Lawrence Lessig

#37. Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line
and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

Jesse Helms

#38. I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

Taya Kyle

#39. Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

#40. It's a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love.

Auliq Ice

#41. You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

Doc Rivers

#42. People are born into this world with the freedom of choice and, surely, given the right mindset, this divinely endowed gift can grant them the power to acquire anything they desire.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#43. Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Fulton J. Sheen

#44. How, then, did Virginia gentlemen persuade the voters to return the right kind of people to the House of Burgesses? How could patricians win in populist politics? The question can lead us again to the paradox which has underlain our story, the union of freedom and slavery in Virginia and America.

Edmund S. Morgan

#45. Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

Philip Schaff

#46. Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Jean Rostand

#47. The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

L. Neil Smith

#48. 'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

Brendan Fletcher

#49. And right action is freedom from past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. The Dry Salvages

T. S. Eliot

#50. Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way.

Marty Rubin

#51. I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

Howard Dean

#52. I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.

Jeff Miller

#53. The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent." The

Neil Gaiman

#55. I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

John Feldmann

#56. But don't I have any freedom of speech?"
"In your own house. Not in mine."
"Don't I have a right to my own ideas?"
"At your own expense. Not at mine."
"Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?"
"Not when I'm paying the bills.

Ayn Rand

#57. Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#58. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Stephen R. Covey

#59. The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

Patricia J. Williams

#60. No, freedom was not lack of responsibilities - it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.

Brandon Sanderson

#61. I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.

Billy Graham

#63. If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

Andy Garcia

#64. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Robert Frost

#65. It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

Faye Wattleton

#67. If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#68. Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason - refuted, or with sense - ridiculed.

David Joseph Cribbin

#69. Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#70. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

Janet Malcolm

#71. Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. ... But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Joan D. Chittister

#72. This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Lisi Harrison

#73. I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

Emma Goldman

#74. Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person's freedom.

Michael Phillip Cash

#75. My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

Christopher Hitchens

#76. I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

Lori Greiner

#77. To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Ma Jian

#78. The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Robert A. Heinlein

#79. Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself

Joost A.M. Meerloo

#80. In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Andrew Sullivan

#81. We've always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that's clean.

Mary Travers

#82. Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

#83. What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.

Desmond Tutu

#84. Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

#85. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn

Tom Clancy

#86. We must protect the right of citizens to practice their religions freely. As president, I will support federal and state-level legislation like the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts that protect citizens and their churches from government intrusion.

Carly Fiorina

#87. It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!

Nirmala Srivastava

#88. The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Thaddeus Stevens

#89. Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent ... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

John G. Diefenbaker

#90. Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.

Kurt Cobain

#91. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Benjamin Franklin

#92. No one has the right to live without being shocked.

Philip Pullman

#93. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson I

#94. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Congress

#95. The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

Elizabeth I

#96. Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart. ... Forgiveness sets you free.

Cheryl Kaye Tardif

#97. I wonder," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, "whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.

Madeleine K. Albright

#98. I don't have the slightest idea what my future holds, but what I do know is that I am capable of figuring it out, and I'm okay being me while I do that. I have earned the right to trust myself. And this feels like freedom to me. My

Lucetta Zaytoun

#99. To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.

Auliq Ice

#100. It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

Criss Jami