Quotes about Rights
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
— Nancy Pearcey
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
— Hillary Clinton
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
— Frederick Douglass
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
— Roger Williams
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
— Ezra Taft Benson
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
— Thomas Jefferson
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
— Booker T. Washington
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
— Ronald Reagan