Quotes about Rights
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
- Peter Kreeft
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.
- Ronald Reagan
It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
- Thomas Jefferson
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
- John F. Kennedy
A creature, considered as such, has no rights. He can demand nothing from his Maker; and in whatever manner he may be treated, has no title to complain.
- AW Pink
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
- Ayn Rand
Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.
- Martin Luther King III
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
- Maya Angelou
We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.
- Jeffrey Wright
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.
- George Bernard Shaw