Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
~ Stockwell Day
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
~ Barack Obama
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
~ Robert Dallek
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.
~ Bob Casey
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
~ John Trumbull
I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.
~ John Shimkus
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
~ Grimes
If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.
~ Kim Collins
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
~ James Madison
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~ Ayn Rand
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
~ William J. Brennan
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
~ Richard Perle
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
~ Marco Rubio
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
~ Ronald Reagan
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
~ José Rizal
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.
~ Charles A. Beard
If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.
~ Roy Moore
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
Rights come from God, not from government.
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
~ Lowell Bergman
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
~ Lysander Spooner
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
~ Leopoldo Lopez
When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?
~ Steve Sabol
When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
~ Morgan Freeman
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
~ Colm Tóibín
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
~ George Bancroft
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
~ E. W. Howe
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
~ Smedley Butler
What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
~ Beau Garrett
Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.
~ Rebecca Mackinnon
I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections.
~ Elizabeth Warren
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
~ Martina Navratilova
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
~ Ma Jun
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.
~ Corey Feldman
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
~ Lawrence Kohlberg
