1,033 Quotes About Rights

For the history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being, became a burning one for several generations of Americans, so burning a question that it ultimately became one of those used to divide the nation.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.

In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.