Top Rights Quotes

Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not sla...

I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil r...

I can hear the roar of women's silence

You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in...

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing duly constituted laws. Laws gain their legitimacy from the Constitution. The Constitution gains its leg...

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a govern...

In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.

President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.