Quotes About Rights

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.

Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

Joining a union makes it more powerful and in turn strengthens the rights of all workers.

I requested people to strengthen my hands with a view to ensuring justice for Tamil Nadu and its due rights.

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

I am a strong woman and I do believe in certain things, but again, that's what's so great about our country - everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.