Rights Quotes

"2014 was a good year for transgender rights."

"I think it's important for women to speak up, it's important to speak up for their rights."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors."

Abigail Adams

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

Emmeline Pankhurst

"I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks."

Sarah Grimké

"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."

Louisa May Alcott

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

"Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass

"Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace."

Benito Juárez

"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."

Thomas Jefferson

"Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all."

Bhagat Singh

“We will never have true civilisation until we have learned to recognise the rights of others.”

“Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.”

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”

“Suffrage is the pivotal right.”

“We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organised, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.”

“The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.”

“Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”

“When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it because it is your right.”

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.”

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”