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During war we imprison the rights of man. -- Jean Giraudoux
The French revolution taught us the rights of man. -- Thomas Sankara
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. -- William J. Brennan
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. -- William J. Brennan
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. -- Edmund Burke
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. -- John F. Kennedy
Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther. -- Rowan Atkinson
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. -- Woodrow Wilson
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. -- Maximilien Robespierre
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. -- Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete -- Rod Serling
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective -- James Madison
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. -- Woodrow Wilson
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. -- Fulton J. Sheen
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. -- Edmund Burke
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home. -- Sachin Kundalkar
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man. -- Thomas Paine
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right. -- Charles James Fox
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity. -- Thomas Paine
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. -- Gerrit Smith
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. -- Thomas Paine
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man. -- Elbert Guillory
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. -- William Godwin
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right. -- Thomas Jefferson
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell. -- John Adams
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. -- Calvin Coolidge
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. -- Alexander Hamilton
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively. -- Walter Lippmann
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians. -- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' -- Benjamin Franklin
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. -- Alexander Hamilton
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. -- Barack Obama
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice. -- Alexander Hamilton
William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Freedom, Rights, Dignity
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself. -- NeNe Leakes
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. -- Gerrit Smith
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. -- Dan Savage
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Immanuel Kant
Potentially, 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. -- Ayn Rand
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. -- John Marshall Harlan
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. -- Ayn Rand
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. -- Walter Kaufmann
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man. -- David R. Brower
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter -- Mahatma Gandhi
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. -- Roger Brooke Taney
Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government. -- Robert Hurt
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. -- Robert Kennedy
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. -- John F. Kennedy
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. -- Ayn Rand
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you. -- Roy Moore
Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam! -- Don King
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. -- Ayn Rand
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. -- Danny Glover
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. -- Charles Baudelaire
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Frederick Douglass
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. -- Anthony Trollope
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. -- Thomas Jefferson
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected. -- Tom Clancy
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. -- Ziggy Marley
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. -- Jose Marti
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. -- Massad Ayoob
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. -- Robert C. Maynard
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'! -- Christina Stead
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. -- J. G. Holland
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. -- Ayn Rand
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. -- Samuel Adams
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... -- Mary Wollstonecraft
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. -- David Starr Jordan
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. -- Alex Epstein
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods. -- Charles Lindbergh
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society. -- Roger Sherman
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. -- Olympe de Gouges
Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured -- Thomas Paine
Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. -- Ayn Rand
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. -- Joe Biden
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. -- Ayn Rand
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. -- Jane Addams
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman. -- Pope Francis
Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man. -- Noam Chomsky
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. -- Oscar Wilde
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. -- James Madison
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. -- Wyndham Lewis
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren. -- Isham G. Harris
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights. -- Riz Ahmed
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. -- Alan Autry
Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates. -- Warren Farrell
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen. -- Wendell Willkie
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. -- Mary Robinson
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man... -- Theodore Roosevelt
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever. -- Joseph Priestley
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever -- Joseph Priestley
You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging"¦ They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights. -- Riz Ahmed

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