Quotes About Rights

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.