I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end do our duty as we understand it.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Unless we see a job as part of every citizens right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, we will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what "need" is, and whose "need" counts the most.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take away from you.