Quotes About Rights

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God, can not long retain it.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

It should be a basic human right.

1]In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. 2]Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. 3]The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Before women gained the right to vote in America, many "had never before considered their degraded status as anything but natural," historian Jean Baker observes. As the suffrage movement gained momentum, "a growing number of women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.

The customer isn't always right. Employees have rights, too.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

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.

The nineteenth-century abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker said that the moral arc of the world tends towards justice

100 percent of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns.

What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

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

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On

Una acción social no puede exigir el tributo de la gratitud porque ella no prodiga mercedes, sino que está destinada a restituir derechos.

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