Quotes About Rights

All men & women are created equal

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.