“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.”— John Philpot Curran
“The state has every right to incarcerate me, but it has no right to violate me.”— Jack Henry Abbott
“We have to fight for our rights and be vigilant and persistent. We have to be advocates for ourselves and for others who are afraid to speak up.”— Gloria Allred
“The essence, and almost the quintessence, of good government is, to protect property and its rights.”— Fisher Ames
“Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.”— Roger Nash Baldwin
“The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”— W. E. B. Du Bois
“The right to be let alone is the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”— Louis D. Brandeis
“You should have the right to know what is known about you and to be able to correct any errors.”— Vinton Cerf
“I am not in favor of caste, nor a separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as black, if I had the same rights and privileges.”— Martin Delany
“The reason we have the 2nd Amendment is not to go hunting. It's to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government.”— Virginia Foxx
“The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It's about the right to defend yourself.”— Tom McClintock
“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
“The moment a man gives up the right to strike, he gives up his right to be a man.”— A. Philip Randolph