Right To Life Quotes

• The right to life is the first among human rights.

  Pope Francis

  Rights, Pro Life, Abortion

  "10 must-read quotations from Pope Francis: portrait of a forceful thinker". www.lifesitenews.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Abortion

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

  Charley Reese

  Believe, Mean, Gun

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• The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Truth, Honesty

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• The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Abortion, Priorities

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• One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.

  Bruce Montague

  Force, Deadly Force

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• The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

  Mother Teresa

  Pro Life, Abortion, Parent

  "Speeches that Changed the World". Book edited by Owen Collins, Westminster John Knox Press, p. 431, 1999.

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• The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Children, Fighting, Men

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• I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

  Pope John XXIII

  Integrity, Men, Every Man

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Abortion

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• And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, People

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• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Happiness, Success

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all.
  A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Pursuit Of Happiness, Equality

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• America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

  George W. Bush

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Government, America

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  Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, Liberty, Together

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, War

  Mother Teresa's address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives), www.ewtn.com. February 3, 1994.

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• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I believe in the right to life.

  Jan Brewer

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Pro Life

  Speech at National Prayer Breakfast Washington, D.C., February 03, 1994.

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• The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Home, Reflection

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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