Quotes About Rights

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.

If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them.

If America is to be the land of opportunity and the beacon of hope that we claim, our immigration policies must be rooted in the fundamental principles of humanity. They must recognize, respect and honor the basic human rights of all people. And they must uphold the commitments we as a country have made to the international community.

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.

The president of the United States, his role is to uphold and to fight for the rights of every person, every American.

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.

People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.

I don't think there's anything wrong with feminist uplift. That's how we got credit cards in our own name.

I think that we've made a lot of progress in the years since the Stonewall uprising, and as far as equality for marriage and things like that go.

One thing about bowl games for me is that big time programs might rank higher, but I love the regional match ups. The bragging rights are on the line.

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.

I have always thought of myself as someone for equal rights. I don't mind being called a feminist, and I get really upset when female celebrities resist the title as if it's a bad thing, because it's a very good thing.

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.

Parents have every right to tell school boards what their children should be taught and every right to be upset when they are ignored.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.