Quotes about Rights
Abortion is profoundly anti-women.
— Mother Teresa
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
— Edith Wharton
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
— Joseph Bradley
Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.
— Ken Ham
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
— Mike Pence
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
— George Washington
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
— Abraham Lincoln
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
— Ayn Rand