Rights Quotes

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Against, Rest

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Law, Liberty, Others

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Men

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Though

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley

Fight, Give, Stand

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Cannot, Earth, Individual

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette

Government, Sacred, Duties

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Government, Secret

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Against

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Inherent

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran

Beautiful, End, Human

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Long, Battle

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Individual, Among

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Freedom, Stars, Few

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

Worth, Duty, Flow

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

Act, Necessary, Favor

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence, Gift, False

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Religion, Good, Great

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

True, Learned, Others

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Fight, Interests, Harder

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson

Successful, Corruption, Country

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden

Feelings, Before, Others

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela

Human, Humanity, Challenge

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama

Love, Freedom, Patriotism

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

Work, Reality, Keep

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Job, Woman

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand

Law, Matter, Individual

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Whole, Community

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