Quotes About Rights

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved.

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.

Privacy violations affect all of us.

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Women, men, and children have fundamental rights to humanitarian assistance and protection. Yet far too many states block aid and attack their own citizens, and too many others - including some of the world's wealthiest countries - turn their back on those fleeing conflict and violence.

I've never been jailed for a crime of violence.

I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

In a democracy, everyone has a right to put forward one's views. But people resorting to violent demonstrations in the name of Dalits are bound to be exposed.

It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.

Individuals who have demonstrated serious violent behaviour or have been involved in gang activity have forfeited the right to ever be trusted to own a firearm.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.