Quotes About Rights

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning…. We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes AND The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. AND We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Sozialistin oder Feministin?' 'Ich könnte doch beides sein. Der Wunsch, dass es für Frauen gerechter zugeht, gehört doch zum Wunsch dazu, dass es für alle gerechter zugeht. Oder nicht?

And that woman is not politics. She's a person, and she has every right to be here.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

national self-determination ("no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty as if they were property")

As nature has implanted in every man a desire of his own happiness, and many tender affections towards others . . . and granted to each one some understanding and active powers, with a natural impulse to exercise them for the purposes of these affections; 'tis plain each one has a natural right to exert his power, according to his own judgement and inclination, for these purposes, in all such industry, labor, or amusements, as are not hurtful to others in their persons or goods. . .

Man has freedom to do all he wills," Spencer wrote, "provided he infringes not on the equal freedom of any other man.

His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.