Quotes About Rights

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.