Quotes About Rights

I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

It should be a badge of shame to have an A-rating from the NRA.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

When I speak, I ask the people, particularly since there are many of us, 'Where will you spend your hard-earned money? Why spend it where it is not gay-friendly? Why should you spend your money in countries that are not gay-friendly just because they have beautiful beaches?'

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

I want people to have the right to bear arms.

Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

People have a right to be able to bear arms.

In the same way we all have a right to bear arms, we all have a right to live.

I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

If you're doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It's about valuation. It's about not being afraid to ask for those things.

The perspective of people who truly believe that abortion is wrong. I understand that, I'm empathetic to that, I get it. But the place where I think we need to come to some kind of an understanding is that... you have your ability to have your own beliefs but the government doesn't play a role in that.

I'm a strong believer in the NRA.

Freedom cannot be a responsibility that only belongs to some of us.

I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. —Words popularly attributed to SOJOURNER TRUTH, the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851

Arguing for black enfranchisement in 1867, Frederick Douglass said: "If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations.

appreciate the value of our free institutions." In these pursuits Lincoln was committed to what Theodore Parker defined as the "American Idea," which was a "composite idea…of three simple ones: 1. Each man is endowed with certain unalienable rights. 2. In respect of these rights all men are equal. 3. A government is to protect each man in the entire and actual enjoyment of all the unalienable rights….