Quotes About Rights

Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others.

There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.

It is clear that the most elementary condition, if thought is to be free, is the absence of legal penalties for the expression of opinions. No great country has yet reached to this level, although most of them think they have.

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The oppression of a minority by a majority is no better, except numerically, than the oppression of a majority by a minority.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right distributed throughout the community

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

The District of Columbia has every right to pass their own laws, and House Republicans should stay out of it.

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

The American Civil Liberties Union has a reputation for serving as a 'guardian of liberty,' protecting our privacy and the First Amendment rights of speech, association and assembly.

We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?

Our evenly matched rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness require an equal paycheck.

We all require equal access to the justice system.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

I reserve the right to be a participating citizen and artist.

Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things like, 'If 'we' allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,' I can't just stand there.