Rights Quotes

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...

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...

The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, ...

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be r...

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

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. I...

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that t...

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with...

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey th...

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - ...

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur...

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

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Gove...

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the ...

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

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

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

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and...

What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights,...

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took...

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnso...

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights a...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant a...

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take p...

Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burde...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been pas...

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our n...

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

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the in...

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other...

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th...

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the ex...

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilan...

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: Wh...

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

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm ...

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some...

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spani...

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a p...

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His ...