Quotes About Freedom

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.

I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

I want to stand up for free speech.

I'm a real freedom fighter. I'm not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people.

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.

I stand up for all rights.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a concerted effort to maintain this standard for myself.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.

People call us heroes, but we are nothing compared to our police force and fire fighters and everybody who protects us and makes sure our freedom is held to the highest standard.

The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.