Rights Quotes

“Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.”

"The right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."

Louis D. Brandeis

"Rights are protected not by law but by the social and moral conscience of society."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."

William Blackstone

"Rights are trumps."

Ronald Dworkin

"We must not for a moment forget that it is a birthright of every individual to receive at least the basic education without which he cannot fully discharge his duties as a citizen."

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

"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

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

“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

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

Frederick Douglass

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right."

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

"A man without a vote is a man without protection."

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority."

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

“The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.”