Quotes About Rights

Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.