Quotes about Rights

Equality in America has never meant literal equality of condition or capacity. There will always be inequalities in character and ability in any society. Equality has meant rather that in the words of the Declaration of Independence, All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. It is meant that in a democratic society there should be no inequalities in opportunities or in freedoms.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.