Quotes on Political Rights

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.