Civil Rights Quotes
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children
M. Meyer




Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.




The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.




We have always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.
John Kilian Houston Brunner




The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.




No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.




God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
King Hussein I




Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.




People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.




We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.




We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.




In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.




In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.




It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down




To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties




Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.




A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph




The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.




Thrift store shopping is a simple abundance with bragging rights.
Sara Noel




No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him




A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims




A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences




The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation ñ enlightened as it is ñ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men
Sam Adams




Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification
Malcolm Wallop




As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions







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