Quotes About Rights

As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

I personally really sympathise with the Maori cause - what's gone on historically and their struggle today as a culture, and how they hold on to that identity and stand up for what's rightfully theirs.

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.

I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, 'Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?' There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

I want to stand up for free speech.

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.

I stand up for all rights.

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality.