Quotes About Rights

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.

The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.