Personal Rights Quotes

“Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“...You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying