Rights

Quotes on rights.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
- Confucius

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
– Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President)

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
– William Henry Harrison (9th U.S. President)

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.
- Desmond Tutu

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
- Bob Marley

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
- Bob Marley

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
- Bob Marley

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln