Quotes About Rights

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.

I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Speaking of which, what's your take on abortion?' 'Do you eat eggs?' 'Excuse me?' 'The unborn embryos of chickens, Samantha.

I always believed freedom concerned the granted right to be different, without fear of repression.

I'd always suspected that the Bill of Rights occasionally had a "liberal" interpretation.

It is because of this notion [of species essence] that we demand that a severely brain-damaged person should have the same rights as a university professor, or a physically disabled person the same rights as an Olympian sportsman. They are all 'human', whatever their intellectual and physical abilities.

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

You have to remember we are in a part of the world where prejudice and injustice against women is high.

So many Republicans embraced Trump's view that they were victims, as was he, because they had actually believed this all along. Theirs was a white birthright, and the rise of nonwhites was an unjust usurping of their rights.

I began to see how everything was so wrong. When growers can have an intricate watering system to irrigate their crops but they can't have running water inside the houses of workers.

In einem freien Staat müssen Zunge und Meinung frei sein.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.