Quotes About Rights

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.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.