Denied Rights Quotes

Came Ms. Margarett Brent and requested to have vote in the howse for her selfe and voyce also ... The Governor denyed that the said Ms. Brent should have any vote in the howse. And the said Ms. Brent protested against all proceedings in this present Assembly, unlesse shee may be present and have vote as aforesaid.

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

Millions of Americans, too, face the intolerable fact that because of their race or their color or the way they choose to worship God, they are denied rights which are their birthrights and which, by American principle and law, are their just due.

It is true that I am still permitted to cast my vote, but I do so with the foreknowledge that it will not count .... My membership is at once a fraud and a farce.

The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.

it is in vaine for a man to have a Right to the end, if the Right to the necessary meanes be deny'd him.

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.