Quotes About Rights

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

Despite saying the letters 'LGBTQ' at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Because of my fighting for LGBT rights, I have seen the possibility of change. And that gives me heart to believe that it is possible to effect change.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised visually. People who want to talk or write in order to share an opinion about Obama can do that, but when I want to say what I think about him, I need to make a portrait.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.

One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

I believe in the Constitution.

Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

If the Muslim is Sharia-compliant, that is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution.

I don't believe in altering the Constitution.

I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.