Quotes About Rights

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

Is democracy about living in fear? Is that what our forefathers fought the British for?

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

The Second Amendment is key to how this country was founded. The Founders put it in place so we could defend ourselves from enemies, foreign and domestic, to be honest with you, and honestly, we need to be able to keep and bear to protect ourselves, to protect our families, and to protect our country.

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Our economic, civil, and constitutional rights are being challenged and, frankly, they are being lost.

For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.