Quotes About Rights

I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the Internet - no ifs.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.

Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?'

If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.

The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.

I think the law is equal for everyone and no one is immune from the law of the nation, the legal system.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Right to Work laws give workers freedom, and more importantly, it gives them the freedom to choose whether to unionize or not.

Denying women the right to drive has imposed huge costs on Saudi citizens.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.