Quotes About Rights

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited.

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.

Technology has flattened a world where trans people are demanding their rights in the U.S. and abroad. TransTech Social Enterprises is here to empower, educate, and employ them no matter where they are. I could not turn down an opportunity for global exposure that our efforts alone might not have ever afforded us.

I've never had a problem with people expressing themselves. It's one thing great about our country.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

You can't be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.

How do you make things fair?

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

The fact that Australia is falling so far behind on something so simple as equal love and equal rights for equal love is disgusting, it's embarrassing.

One of the reasons we set up this country, one of the things we celebrate in freedom and democracy of the United States is you can criticize your president. You can criticize the ways in which the country falls short of its values.

I'm going to be an advocate to ensure that we are protecting everyone, and we're tearing down barriers and not building barriers.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.

I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.