Quotes About Rights

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

Americans are waking up to the tragedy of abortions.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.

Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

Women don't get the benefits of America the way men do.

We're giving those benefits away, which we earn as citizens of this nation, of being legalized citizens.

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

Safety should be a birthright.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

The battle goes on for me; as a gay man, I shall not be happy until I see equality across the board.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually men - have tried to control women's bodies.

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

Women are not a doormat. We are equivalent to men. It is just that we have different bodies and different biological needs.

I believe in a woman's right to choose, because, well, no one ever seems to tell guys what to do with their bodies.