rights

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right.

Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.