Quotes About Rights

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.

for all victims of the terrible injustice which puts men and women to death without form of law. During the year 1894, there were 132 persons executed in the United States by due form of law, while in the same year, 197 persons were put to death by mobs who gave the victims no opportunity to make a lawful defense.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Un Sufi tiene derecho a ser servido, pero no tiene derecho a exigir. Maruf Karkhi de Khorasan

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?

So much for the First Amendment! The chief and primary expression of our constitutional rights is being trampled by a "right" that the framers of the Constitution failed even to enumerate, the right to untrammeled sexual practice.

if the nation were to be stable, individual rights had to be exercised according to rules that all people could understand and trust.

But in the final analysis it doesn't matter whether they were Christian believers, Deists, or atheists: Their intention was to create a system of governance that prohibited the privileging of one set of beliefs over another and allowed citizens the freedom to choose and practice religion without the interference of the state.

We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated." He spoke of "the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking," and accepted that Germany had, in fact, already gone to war against the United States.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

Freedom and Justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

I guess we are back to you. Know your rights?" "Yes, but it is the wrongs that keep getting me into trouble, Officer.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.