“It would have been totally within my rights to abandon or abort this kid or make it think I'm its aunt or something. But that's not what I want now.”— Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Victor Quinaz, Nick Kroll, Constance the Hormone Monstress , Maya Rudolph, imdb.com
“Should the Iranian nation beg for the right of exploitation of nuclear energy from the bullying world powers until they accept that the nation has a nuclear right?... No. This is not the way of a free and independent nation... Rights cannot be achieved by entreating. If you supplicate, withdraw and…”— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, businessweek.com
“Erin: Teenagers have rights, ya know? Ma Mary: Don't be ridiculous. Erin: They do, Ma. It's true.”— Lisa McGee, Erin Quinn, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, imdb.com
“The police decided to solve this case no matter what it meant to the rights of a scared 14-year-old child.”— Julian Breece, Ava DuVernay, Mickey Joseph, Joshua Jackson, imdb.com
“They call this a 'pauper's funeral' because it's the cheapest slot, at 9:00. But Dan wasn't a pauper to us. He gave us things that money can't buy. When he died, I found this on him. He always used to write in pencil. And he wanted to read it at his appeal but he never got the chance to. And I swear…”— Paul Laverty, Katie, Hayley Squires, imdb.com
“You can fight for your light, or you fight for your rights, but there is a fight because people are trying to pull you down. That’s the message I want people to get; if you fight hard enough, you can have what the hell you want.”— Tech N9Ne, dreadcentral.com
“A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.”— Frederick Douglass, en.wikiquote.org
“It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in our country’s efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens. Recent events in the United States and abroad have made us realize that it is more important today than ever before to insure that all Americans enjoy these r…”— Harry S Truman, americanrhetoric.com
“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge or condemn each other, don’t find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.”— John McCain, nytimes.com
“You know, my whole life and career has been championing the rights of women, gay folk and disenfranchised folk. This administration is a fucking nightmare for us.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“We have to be as passionate, if not more passionate, about our responsibilities as we are about our rights. I have a right to free speech, but I also have a responsibility to be humane and productive with what I speak.”— Bernice King, twitter.com
“Rights are never set in stone. Power changes, leadership turns over, you are responsible for staying aware and fighting for those whose voices may not yet carry the way yours does.”— G.D Anderson, gdanderson.com
“The rights which belong to us as a nation are not alone to be regarded, but those which pertain to every citizen in this individual capacity, at home and abroad, must be sacredly maintained.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. I shall never doubt it.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“You have the right to remain silent because whatever you say will probably be stupid, anyway.”— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com
“By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching…”— James K. Polk, yale.edu
“The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.”— Benjamin Harrison, top10-best.com