Quotes about Rights
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.
— Nelson Mandela
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
— Thomas Jefferson
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
— Frederick Douglass
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.
— George W. Bush
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
— George W. Bush
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
— Thomas Jefferson
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
— Albert Camus
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.