Own Rights Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to…
— Emily Carr
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The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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…
— Riz Ahmed
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The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
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When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a…
— Julia Serano
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Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship…
— Gary Steiner
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As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting…
— William Henry Harrison
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Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see…
— Mother Teresa
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The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will…
— Oswald Chambers
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Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting…
— Thomas Sowell
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The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
— William Jennings Bryan
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It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The…
— Samuel Adams
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Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if…
— Pope Francis
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
— John Wooden
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The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
— C.S. Lewis
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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my…
— Walt Whitman
Who Wrote These Own Rights Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Own Rights Quotes as follows: