Rights In America Quotes:

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Social Democracy, Power Corruption

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

- William O. Douglas

source: "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

topic: Speech, Civil Rights, Defeat, American Revolution, Intellectual Freedom

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Leadership, Witty, Men, Consent Of The Governed, Leadership In Education

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

- A. Philip Randolph

source: "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

topic: Powerful, Struggle, Rights, Social Democracy, Linkages

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Freedom, Social Equality, Social Injustice

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

- Karen DeCrow

topic: Struggle, Rights, America, Womens Rights, Rights In America

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

- George W. Bush

topic: Thinking, Rights, America, Rights In America

The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

- Patricia Arquette

source: "Patricia Arquette Just Made a Rally Cry for Women at the Oscars" by Justine Harman, Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. February 23, 2015.

topic: Fighting, Gay, Men, Gay People, Rights In America

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

- David Barton

topic: Rights, America, Political, Political Rights, Rights In America

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

- Julian Bond

topic: Gay, America, Rights, Rights In America, Gay Community

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

- Malcolm X

topic: America, Rights, Goal, Afros, Rights In America

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

- Patricia Arquette

source: "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Spiritual, America, Rights, Rights In America