Quotes About Rights

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.