Quotes About Rights

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

I have had the greatest respect for the institution of the Supreme Court. I have always believed it to be the last bastion of hope, particularly for the weak and the oppressed who knock at its door for the protection of their rights, often against a powerful executive.

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the central tenets of our democracy - justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood's ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

These efforts to defund Planned Parenthood fail because one out of five American women have used Planned Parenthood at one time or another in their life. It's just a bad idea.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

One thing I learned in the military is we fight for everybody's rights to say and do as they please, so everybody is free to make their choices.

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.