Quotes About Rights

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

There is no such thing as a federal personhood bill.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Leaving the E.U. is only the first phase of the Brexiter agenda to shake us free of the laws, rules and rights that many see as a constraint on the implementation of their frighteningly rightwing vision of Darwinian capitalism.

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

In a free Europe... the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It's impossible to use one against the other.

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry your gun, loaded or unloaded, concealed or openly, just about anywhere.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.