Quotes About Rights

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

All men are born equally free.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

Law never made men a whit more just.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.