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Rights: Quotations from Burning Words

Almost two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet, a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning has agreed to call Divine. I read little respecting His rights or of His claims of rights; but I have read a great deal respecting His duties. Every act He did He called a duty. Rights are grand things, divine things, in this world of God; but the way in which we expound those rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights!— F. W. ROBERTSON

Away with private wrongs! We'll not go forth To fight for these - but for the rights of men.— MRS. HALE

One of the grandest things in having rights is that, being your rights, you may give them up.— GEORGE MACDONALD