Quotes About Rights

Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.

We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.

American democracy is greater with free speech and open dialogue.

I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.

This country is built on free speech.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.

There's certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I'm not going to compromise on; I'm not going to compromise on a woman's right to choose and on marriage equality.

And for government and a bunch of men in government, frankly, to get between a woman and her provider is downright dangerous, especially when most of them can't even spell endometriosis, much less tell you what it means.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

The respect for the rights of minorities that China's Tibetan and Uighur activists champion would prevent instability that could spill across China's borders.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.