William E. Gladstone Quotes

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

If you have respect for people's rights, you will have peace.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

To affirm my own rights I must define and affirm the rights of others.

Do not try to save the world by loving thy neighbor; it will only make him nervous. Save the world by respecting thy neighbor's rights under law and insisting that he respect yours (under the same law.)

The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonably require that it be respected by others…. The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilization itself.

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.