Quotes About Rights

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!