Rights Quotes

Rights Quote of the day

The time is always right to do the right thing.

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. (...) I also deeply believe in human rights.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.