Quotes About Rights

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.'

I'm going to actively fight for players' rights. Not while I'm in college. I'm always going to keep a consistent track record of what I believe in. But I don't have the clout or the means.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it.

Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors.

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.