Quotes about Rights
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
- James K. Polk
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Thomas Paine
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
- Jacques Maritain
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
- Aristotle
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.
- Walt Whitman
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
- Al Gore
No man who knows aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.
- John Milton
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
- Lady Gaga