Quotes About Rights

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'

I refuse to allow President Trump and Republicans to take away our right to quality, affordable healthcare.

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of your PAP MPs ask the hard questions? As a Singaporean, you have a right to information that the Government is refusing to answer.

When they regain the right to vote, formerly incarcerated individuals know that they have a real voice in impacting change in their community.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.

I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

I believe all people, regardless of sexual orientation, should be guaranteed the full rights to the legal benefits and responsibilities of marriage under the Constitution.

It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.

Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.