Quotes about Rights
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
— George Washington
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
— Abraham Lincoln
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
— Ayn Rand
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
— Pope Francis
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
— Abraham Lincoln
All men are created equal.
— Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson