Quotes About Rights

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

Don't sell your publishing.

Don't sign your publishing away.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.

Americans have a right to obtain firearms for lawful purposes.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It isn't life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for some - it is declared for all of us. So let's celebrate America by defending the right to vote - for every eligible citizen, everywhere in America.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.