Quotes about Rights

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.

wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

A free people ought...to be armed.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.