1,033 Quotes About Rights

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

Don’t fight for flags, symbols, or politicians, or generals, because they will not fight for you. Instead fight for rights and for decent people, fight for a better future if you must fight.

Animal rights come before human rights.

It is the definition of RIGHTS or LIBERTIES that is at the core of the issue. Real rights are concerned with what a man CAN DO. False rights are concerned with what a man CAN GET. True rights are concerned with the ability to live freely; false rights are concerned with the ability to get free things.

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

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

The one right that no founding father ever fought for was 'equality'. When I discovered this, I was appalled that these great men could not understand that 'equality' should come before all else because without 'equality' the other rights are useless. It's like giving someone a crippled horse.

1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris:The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil government; a rule which consists not only in maintaining the rights of property, but also those rights vested in the individual and derived from prerogatives of birth and social position.

Men's rightsThe right to be vulnerableThe right to be weakThe right to be wrongThe right to be intuitiveThe right not to knowThe right to be uncertainThe right to be flexibleThe right not to be ashamed by any of these