Quotes about Rights

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'