Quotes About Rights

The one thing about America is you have the freedom to think what you want and do what you want without the government interfering.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

Seeking equal protection under our laws for the LGBT community is the right thing to do.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is not the novel that previews what's coming; it's rather Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The contemporary social critic James Poulos calls this the "Pink Police State": an informal arrangement in which people will surrender political rights in exchange for guarantees of personal pleasure.

Elites and elite institutions are abandoning old-fashioned liberalism, based in defending the rights of the individual, and replacing it with a progressive creed that regards justice in terms of groups. It encourages people to identify with groups—ethnic, sexual, and otherwise—and to think of Good and Evil as

[On slaves and their descendants:] They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

A Black man has no rights that a White man is bound to respect.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors...then surely it is a braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

It is far better for a country to remain under the rule of Islam than be governed by Christians who refuse to acknowledge the rights of the Catholic Church. Pope Gregory VII, 1073

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.

Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.

Don't let anyone tell you that you don't have rights, because no one has the right to say that.

Nationalism meant differentiating between the nation and the state, and it was clear that no government could take upon itself the rights of a nation.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.