Civil rights Quote by L. Ron Hubbard

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I consider that in the current situation, it is unfitting for a representative of the people to be overzealous to the point of forgetting…

— Manuel Lempereur

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

— Thomas Paine

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have…

— Rudolf Rocker

“When people are forced to respect civil rights and human rights or face legal consequences, they don't like it. Civil rights laws will be…

— Arun Gandhi

“I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may…

— Flann O'Brien

“When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute man's patrimony,…

— José Rizal

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

“A human rights activist is the worst type of person to mess with. If I can choose an enemy between the worst finance CEO,…

— Iveta Cherneva

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes…

— Lyman Trumbull