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Quotes About Rights

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
~ Jesse Jackson
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
~ Barack Obama
ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
The world isn't only meant for humans to enjoy it, it has also a duty to give animals rights and freedom.
~ Unknown
Dominating others is not equality.
~ Christina Engela, Loderunner
I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.
~ Anthony Pan
EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.
~ Unknown
To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
~ Tommy Chong
Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.
~ Mary Robinson
I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion.
~ Steven Magee
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
~ Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.
~ Russell Kirk
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
~ Pat Robertson
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
~ Unknown
People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
~ Donald Wuerl
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
~ Al Gore
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Humans must stop being in awe of their own ego...it is foolish for man to think his own life is worth more to him than any other being is to itself, for he is insensitive to the inherent rights of all earthlings.
~ Unknown