Quotes about Rights
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?
— Henry David Thoreau
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.
— Stephen Colbert
Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
— Mike Huckabee
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
— Pope John Paul II
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
— Maya Angelou
We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.
— Barack Obama
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt