Quotes About Rights

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

I would find it difficult to be involved in an effort that I think disenfranchises people from a fundamental right. How do you work with people who are opposed to marriage equality? I don't want to do it.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

Choosing when and whether to have a baby is a fundamental right for all women, no matter where they live.

I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

For me you took on the enigmatic quality that all tyrants have whose rights are based on their person and not on reason. At least so it seemed to me.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

I work with 15 organisations that deal with issues ranging from environment protection and wildlife conservation to human rights, and women's and children's rights, etc.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.