“Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.” MenNaturalRightsOughtDeprivedToleration Author:Charles James Fox
“If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.” IfsMenMeanRightsProductsLaborSlaveEntitledDeprivedSlave Labor Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!” MenLongHas BeensLawEvilMoralVirtueRightsSubjectsMoralityPrejudiceVicesPossessionCivil RightsCharmGood And EvilArbitraryDeprivedConstraintsYokeMoral LawFreedom To Choose Author:Flora Tristan
“There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.” YearsLittlesStillsCountryDoneChoicesGirlEnjoyMillionsStudyRightsVoteTwentiesSexualityOperationsBrutalDeprivedFreedom Of ChoiceBasic Rights Author:Dacia Maraini
“The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.” PeopleWritingStatesFactsSpeakNationsUnitedLibertyUnited StatesRightsBillsFollowingReputationPublishDeprivedBill Of Rights Author:Thomas Jefferson
“I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.” MenEnjoyRightsWrittenLandConditionsImmigrantsPalestinianExileDeprivedLegal Rights Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun