Quotes About Rights

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

When Bauer asks Jews: Have you the right from your standpoint to crave political emancipation? we would inquire on the contrary: Has the standpoint of political emancipation the right to demand of Jews the abolition of Judaism, or from men generally the abolition of religion.

It was now painfully clear to the people that equality before the law did not produce genuine, human equality

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.