Quotes About Rights

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

A man has a right to want to live.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.