Donald Trump’s ineffective leadership gravely worsened the crisis that we are in and he is now taking advantage of it to subvert and destroy our right to vote and vote safely. Request a ballot early. Vote early. – Taylor Swift
Law enforcement should be in place to protect the rights of American citizens, not restrict them. – Muriel Bowser Washington Mayor calling on Donald Trump to “withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence” from capital.
Whatever Trump’s goal in conducting his visit, he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces. – Mike Mullen
I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people even those with whom we might disagree. – Wilton Daniel Gregory Archbishop of Washington on visit of Donald Trump to Saint John Paul II shrine.
It wasn’t enough that peaceful protesters had just been deprived of their first-amendment rights – this photo-op sought to legitimize that abuse with a layer of religion. – General John Allen On order to clear protesters from Lafayette Square before President Trump emerged from White House to stand in front of St. John’s Church and hold Bible aloft.
I dispel the absurd caricature of Britain as a nation bent on the slash and burn of workers rights and environmental protection as if we are saved from Dickensian squalor only by enlightened EU regulation, as if it was only thanks to Brussels, that were not preparing to send children back up chimneys. In one field after another Britain is far ahead. – Boris Johnson Feb 3, 2020 speech on Brexit.
I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! – Samuel T. Cogley Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Court Martial’.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. – Hans Kung
I’m a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don’t think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine. – Gabriel E. Gomez
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. – Harold H. Greene
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states’ rights at the expense of human rights. – George W. Romney
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. – Herbert Croly
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. – Henry Rollins
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights. – Hideki Tojo
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans. – Helen Thomas
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. – John Marshall
As a cosigner of the Veterans’ Bill of Rights, I’m committed to making sure that veterans’ issues remain a top priority in Congress. – John Delaney
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. – Jimmy Carter
The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody’s constitutionally protected rights. – Janet Napolitano
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. – James Madison
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time. – James Bovard
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. – James K. Polk
Because we self-published ‘Draculas,’ we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever. – J. A. Konrath