Quotes About Rights

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to biological material. At the time, I never thought of what I'm doing now as a career. I thought I wouldn't find employment doing this.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. That's what I'm trying to do with immigration. If what the founding fathers said is true, that we are all equal, then let's fight for that.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Britain must be the champion of international law.

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.