Frederick William Robertson Quotes

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

Establish democracy ... based on human rights as superior to property rights.

But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his.

One man’s right is every man’s right.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.