Quotes about Rights
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
— Jesse Jackson
This young century will be liberty's century.
— George W. Bush
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
— Robert Frost
I believe there is complete equality between men and women.
— Jimmy Carter
I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
— Abraham Lincoln
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
— Anthony Browne
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
— CS Lewis
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
— Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
— James Madison