Quotes about Rights
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
- Sojourner Truth
Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.
- Oscar Wilde
What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible
- Dallas Willard
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
- Alexander Hamilton
when state and national governments begin to act in effect as agents of the global economy, selling their people for low wages and their people's products for low prices, then the rights and liberties of citizenship must necessarily shrink.
- Wendell Berry
There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.
- Paul Allen
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.
- Hillary Clinton
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
- Hillary Clinton
The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.
- John Kennedy
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- Pope John Paul II
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
- Desmond Tutu