Quotes About Rights

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.

I am entitled to my privacy. People say, 'No, you're not entitled to your privacy because you married a famous person and you have Instagram.' Well, that's not really true.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?