The public can have no rights springing from injustice to…

Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place…

— Immanuel Kant

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

— Ro Khanna

If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights…

— Tony Benn

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing…

— Lysander Spooner

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like.…

— Lysander Spooner

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced…

— Thomas Jefferson

[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check…

— James Madison

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

— Christopher Dodd

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets…

— John Stott

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself…

— Anonymous

I cannot accept being silent in the face of injustice.

— Jasmine Crockett

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

— Charlotte Bronte

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we…

— Alan Dershowitz