Quotes About Rights

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

I will never give an inch on our Second Amendment rights, and I adamantly oppose forcing our daughters to go to war.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

On the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself, there is no opposition in Israel.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequently keeps me on the optimistic side of life.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they live in.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

The true gun safety advocates, as they have been for centuries, are the millions of members of the NRA and other training organizations.