Quotes about Rights
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
- Thomas Jefferson
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.
- Nelson Mandela
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
- Frederick Douglass
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.
- George W. Bush
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
- George W. Bush
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
- Joseph Heller
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
- Thomas Jefferson