#rights

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. ↗

— Aristotle

#equality #governement #law #political-philosophy #rights

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us... ↗

— Rai Aren

#compassion #equality #kindness #life #life-affirming

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#privilege #rights #equality

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#liberty #rights #equality

No man is above the law, and no man is below it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#equality #equality

Remember, the change you want to see in the world, and in your school, begins with you. ↗

— Joseph Clementi

#equality #gay-rights #human-rights #change

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#equality #freedom #gender #independence #men

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others. ↗

— Julian Bond

#human-rights #equality

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right he claims for himself. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#equality #human-rights #progress #equality

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them ↗

— James Howe

#gay #gay-rights #glbt #equality