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Quotes About Rights

The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.
~ Miguel Diaz-Canel
We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to be an anti-Muslim bigot, on campus or off, CAIR is free to challenge their bigotry by speaking out against the promotion of hatred and intolerance.
~ Ibrahim Hooper
Repealing the Eighth Amendment is about women who don't want to be pregnant. It's not about a certain type of woman, a certain age of woman - we all known sisters and mothers who have chosen to go on with a pregnancy and those who haven't.
~ Aisling Bea
I really believe in a globalist agenda, but globalization isn't just allowing companies to trade freely all over the world. It's about what types of rights and responsibilities come with that.
~ Noreena Hertz
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.
~ Niger Innis
The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.
~ Derrick Grayson
If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.
~ Chuck Norris
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
~ William O. Douglas
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
~ Henry Fielding
When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny.
~ Scott Pruitt
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
~ Ice T
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.
~ Wayne LaPierre
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.
~ Gina Miller
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
~ Ernestine Rose
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants. Pro-Bitcoin advocates want protection against tyrants, too. The difference is how these two groups define tyranny.
~ Max Keiser
It's really hard to truly want people who you hate to have the right to say whatever they want. And we all disguise the ugly self-centeredness of it.
~ Jim Norton
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
~ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.
~ Petro Poroshenko
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.
~ Vito Fossella
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.
~ Niger Innis
My ultimate goal is a statewide non-discrimination law with broad protections, and I will keep striving for it.
~ Roy Cooper