Quotes About Rights

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.

For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.

Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

Any restriction of press freedom is unacceptable.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

If you can tell me what gun, type of gun, I can possess, then I didn't really get that right to keep and bear arms from God. It was not bequeathed to me; it was not unalienable, right?

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.

It is actually unbelievable that somebody would be deprived of his livelihood for expressing an opinion that he's entitled to.

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection for the unborn.

Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.

To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men shouldn't go into women's bathrooms and showers, you are a bigot. If you believe the unborn have a right to life, you must hate women.

I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.

Well, I'm pro-life, and I've been pretty clear about that. So I think we should do everything we can to protect the unborn.

Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings.