Quotes About Rights

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.