Quotes About Rights

It's OK to say whatever you want. It's a free country. And it's also OK for the rest of us to say 'We don't like what you're saying.' That's actually our job as members of Congress.

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

At 18, they're old enough to drive. The girls enter university, and the boys enter into National Service. Since they have a duty to defend our country, these 18-year-olds should also have the right to elect their leaders. They are mature enough.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

I had to realize that everyone has opinions, and they all have the right to feel a certain way, and you have to respect that.