Justice & Rights Sayings

100 sayings found from the Modern era from 100 authors

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde 1890
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The one thing that can't be taken from us is our freedom to choose how we will react to whatever we are given.

— Emily Dickinson Unknown
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Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost 1945
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The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give freedom to a caged bird.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1916
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It is praiseworthy to be a peacemaker, but it is not enough to be a peacemaker. One must also be a justice-maker.

— Chinua Achebe late 20th century
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

— Hunter S. Thompson 1979
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We are all prisoners of our own minds.

— Kurt Vonnegut Unknown
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Freedom is a strong seed planted in a great need.

— Langston Hughes 1943
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It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of the way in which people are treated.

— James Baldwin 1968
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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves.

— Federico Garcia Lorca 1933
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.

— Bob Marley 1980
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Justice is a joke in this country, and it's all in the hands of the white man.

— Billie Holiday 1956
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I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!

— Nina Simone 1968
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I am a law unto myself.

— Richard Wagner Various
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

— Igor Stravinsky 1942
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I'm a Muslim and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm a black man in America. I want justice and equality. I want what's rightfully mine.

— Muhammad Ali 1960s
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Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

— Bruce Lee 1960s-1970s
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I know that I am a black man, and I know that I am an American, and I know that I have the same rights as any other American.

— Jackie Robinson 1949
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