Quotes about Rights
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
— John Milton
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
— Ayn Rand
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
— John Calvin
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.
— Dennis Prager
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
— Millard Fillmore