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Quotes About Rights

For a man's house is his castle.
~ Edward Coke
Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.
~ Faye Wattleton
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
~ Malcolm X
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
~ Marilyn French
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
~ Mary Astell
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
~ Pope Leo XIII
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
~ Lysander Spooner
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
~ Adam Smith
Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
~ Pope John XXIII
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
~ Robert C. Maynard
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
~ Ingrid Michaelson
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
~ Thomas Hobbes
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
~ George Washington
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
~ George Mason
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
~ A. J. Liebling
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
~ Alice Childress
A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.
~ Andy Garcia
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
~ Ayn Rand
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
~ Baron de Montesquieu