Quotes about Rights

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal...

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

Heliodorus, tells me that there are many parts of the Scriptures which you seek and cannot find. But even if you have them all, affection is sure to assert its rights and to seek for itself more than it already has.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.