| Author |
Quotes |
| Anonymous | Many a person seems to think it isn't enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He insists it also run interference for him. |
| Carl Schurz | From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. |
| Charles Fourier | The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. |
| Charles Simmons | No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. |
| Claude Arien Helvetius | I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. |
| Claude Arien Helvetius | The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. |
| Claude Arien Helvetius | Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. |
| Gerald W Johnson | No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. |
| Henry George | The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. |
| Hubert H Humphrey | The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down. |
| Samuel Adams | Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. |
| Sir Thomas More | Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence. |
| Sir William Blackstone | The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. |
| William Pitt | Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. |
| William Pitt | The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. |
| William Pitt | I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool. |
| Edmund Burke | They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. |
| Mark Twain | Always do right, this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. |
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