#rights

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #rights




We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.


Theodore Roosevelt


#human-rights #property-rights #dreams

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.


Frederick Douglass


#human-rights #politics #slavery #suffrage #knowledge

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.


Marquis de Lafayette


#entire nation #nation #natural #people #republicanism

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.


Émilie Du Châtelet


#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.


Bill Maher


#bill-of-rights #christianity #constitution #politics #religion