Quotes about Rights
I think the first duty of society is justice.
— Alexander Hamilton
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
— Cicero
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.
— Sojourner Truth
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time
— Joe Biden
You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!
— Anne Frank
I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
— Peter Kreeft
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.
— Ronald Reagan
It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
— Thomas Jefferson
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
— Mahatma Gandhi