Quotes about Rights
Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.
— Brennan Manning
The gospel that proclaims the intrinsic worth, sacred value, and essential dignity of human beings encourages our work for equal rights, good housing, good medical care, and good education, and our fight for justice and peace in the world.
— Henri Nouwen
It seems indeed that the Church today is one of the few institutions in the world willing to defend human rights regardless of who the oppressor is.
— Henri Nouwen
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?
— Henry David Thoreau
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.
— Stephen Colbert
Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
— Mike Huckabee
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
— Pope John Paul II
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
— Maya Angelou
We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.
— Barack Obama