Quotes about "rights"
Freedom is never given; it is won.
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
