Rights Quotes

Rights Quote of the day

The time is always right to do the right thing.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

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

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Love is a better way.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.