Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

Rights are in the power of the people.

Generous souls always interest themselves in the fate of a people who strive to recover the rights to which the Creator and Nature have entitled them, and one must indeed be wedded to error and passion not to harbor this noble sentiment

Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim. An' don't let anny wan give thim to ye. A right that is handed to ye fer nawthin has somethin the matter with it.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

There is no power above people power.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

All the political rights and liberties which people enjoy today, they do not owe to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength

For Haitians to vote means more than in Western countries. It is the way for the millions, who live in dirt and poverty, to prove to themselves that they are human. It is the difference between eternal darkness and light.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

The individual is greater than the state.