Quotes About Rights

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

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