Top Rights Quotes

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the...

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection...

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups...

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story t...

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's...