Rights Quotes

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquill...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquill...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in...

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that ...

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Whe...

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entit...

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first w...

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to b...

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on...

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Ma...

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...

There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a cri...

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls...

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - su...

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as depend...

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights un...

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many t...

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live,...

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important th...

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in ...

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches...

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rende...

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books sa...

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finis...

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing dul...

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaratio...

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I di...

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divi...

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

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the m...

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on ...

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who...

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

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

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their righ...

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in...

Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No whe...

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassion...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wr...

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we ...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...

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

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involve...

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputab...

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We mus...

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporte...

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech...