Quotes about Rights
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
— Abraham Lincoln
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
— Maya Angelou
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
— Nancy Pearcey
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Cicero
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every amendment in the Bill of Rights expressly tells the government what IT is forbidden to do, not one of them explains what the people can't do
— Mike Huckabee
In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners
— Ayn Rand
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— St. Thomas Aquinas