We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion… — Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Copy Share Image
“Freedom of association is one of the natural rights of man. Clearly, therefore, it should also be a "civil" right. Right-to-work laws… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The very notion of “natural rights” is a mere fiction, and the antitraditional and subversive use of that is well documented. There… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Everybody is satisfied, that a conservation and secure enjoyment of our natural rights is the great and ultimate purpose of civil society;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Locke said that there is a circle of freedom surrounding each person and all people at birth. And within that circle is… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world.… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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