Human rights, animal rights, freedom of speech, and the right to vote. Here are some proverbs and quotes about rights.
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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
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.Thomas Jefferson
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.(unknown author)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - the United Nations
Children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense.Nicholas Humphrey
Everyone has a right to be stupid some just abuse the right.
I believe the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st Century.Hillary Clinton
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.Stephen Hawking
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature.Leonardo da Vinci
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.Claude Pepper
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.Hypatia
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.Evo Morales
The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.George S. McGovern
The principle of universality admits no exception. Human rights truly are the birthright of all human beings.Navanethem Pillay
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.Will Rogers
