Quotes About Rights

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free