Quotes about Rights
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
— Brigham Young
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
— Al Gore
I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
— Abraham Lincoln
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
— Abraham Lincoln
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
— Edmund Burke
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— GK Chesterton
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.