Quotes about Rights
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
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
- Harry S. Truman
If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
- James Dobson
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.