Quotes about Rights

In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.

Conservative or liberal, we are all constitutionalists.

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.

For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It's embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man. It finds

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.