Quotes about Rights
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
- GK Chesterton
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
- John Milton