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However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

Adam Rickitt

Legal

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Orville Redenbacher

Rights

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

Government

Rights

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph

Community

Rights

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.