Quotes about Rights
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
— Frederick Douglass
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.
— George W. Bush
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
— George W. Bush
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
— Thomas Jefferson
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
— Albert Camus
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
— Martin Luther
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.