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Quotes About Rights

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
~ Mike Pence
U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets, business and enterprise, to boost labour standards and rights and, ultimately, to boost the incomes of the poorest which, in the long term, boosts demand for British goods and services.
~ Barry Gardiner
Again, when it comes to enforcement of our community standards, we support people's rights to demonstrate, but we don't care about who you are or your politics are. If you engage in violence in this city, you will be held accountable.
~ Ted Wheeler
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
~ Dennis Banks
It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.
~ Alex Morgan
Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.
~ Will Muschamp
As a woman standing up here, we have to fight for the rights of women.
~ Suzan DelBene
You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.
~ Dolores O'Riordan
If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
~ Michael Moore
Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.
~ Thom Tillis
We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.
~ Darryl Glenn
As senator, my focus will be on standing up for Mainers, especially when it comes to protecting our rights and fighting for our health care.
~ Sara Gideon
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
~ Bainbridge Colby
Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.
~ Kelly Ayotte
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
~ Sidney Buchman
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
~ J. B. Pritzker
Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing responsibility and increasing personal freedom.
~ Margaret Hoover
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.
~ Vaclav Havel
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
~ William Wells Brown
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
~ Abigail Adams
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
~ Immanuel Kant
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
~ Charles James Fox