(291 quotes found)
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the sc”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.”
Edison Haines
“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom”
Mary Ritter Beard
“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights”
Bob Marley
“In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
