Quotes About Rights

Marriage equality changed life for people.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.