Quotes about Rights

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.

Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least intolerant, among the Reformers.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God, can not long retain it.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.