Men speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Men their rights and nothing more women their rights and nothing less.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection support justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Civil and political rights are critical but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors not accountants.