Quotes about Rights
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
— Alexander Hamilton
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
— Ronald Reagan
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
— Ernestine Rose
The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.
— Mike Pence
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
— Mother Teresa
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
— Jimmy Carter
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
— Anonymous
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
— James Madison
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
— Ronald Reagan