Quotes About Rights

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.