Top 100 Our Rights Quotes
#1. The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.
Alan Wilson
#2. Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.
Wesley Clark
#3. We live in a day and time when our rights sometimes take precedence over our pursuit of righteousness, when we get caught in the rush of seeking self rather than seeking God.
Lysa TerKeurst
#4. I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
Tabatha Coffey
#5. The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if ... moral sentiment is missing.
Glenn Beck
#6. If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.
Calvin Coolidge
#7. Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
Ai Weiwei
#8. The [Barack] Obama administration wants to take our rights to keep and bear arms away from us. They are trying to take our God, and our gun. And if they do that, they can impose a dictatorship upon us.
Ted Cruz
#9. If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.
Glenn Beck
#10. Our rights are not granted by governments," Snowden said. "They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.
Edward Snowden
#11. Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
Faye Wattleton
#12. Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.
Robert Hurt
#13. As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.
Kevin DeYoung
#14. As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.
Herb Kohl
#15. Our crosses are our rights ... Because life is not about me, because this world is not my home, because I'm tired of defending myself, and because the God of the universe is my Defender.
Jennie Allen
#16. The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.'
'Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.'
'If you desert, we will desert with you.
Gabriel Dumont
#17. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.
Jill Stein
#19. They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others
John Howard Griffin
#20. You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
Sojourner Truth
#21. What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
Desmond Tutu
#22. Not a single time have we gotten our rights from Congress or the President, we get them from God. And when He gives us those rights, He puts a warning bell inside of us. When somebody tries to take them, a warning bell goes off. And that's what America is feeling right now.
Glenn Beck
#23. But what about ugly bastards? What about us? What about our rights to be kissed?
Hanif Kureishi
#24. The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
John Sulston
#25. Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
Henry Brooke
#26. Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
Malcolm Wallop
#27. Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
Khalil Gibran
#28. We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
Martin Van Buren
#29. Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#30. With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.
Leonard Peltier
#31. Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.
Dick Durbin
#33. Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.
Alan Keyes
#34. I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.
Anne Hathaway
#35. The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
Millard Fillmore
#36. Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence;
Thomas Jefferson
#37. The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
William Wells Brown
#38. The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#39. We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
James Monroe
#40. You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
Alan Keyes
#41. We need to bless instead of condemning, we need to learn to stand for the truth of God and for our rights
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
Oswald Chambers
#43. All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
John Stossel
#44. We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.
Malcolm X
#45. Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
Douglas Feith
#46. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Sitting Bull
#47. Rather than demanding our rights and creating for ourselves a world where we feel safe and accepted, we need to see the deep spiritual needs of the world and concern ourselves with offering people hope through Jesus Christ. That's what being a living sacrifice is all about. Third,
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#48. If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
Fulton J. Sheen
#49. The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
John H. Reagan
#50. We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
L. Neil Smith
#51. Our rights come from nature and God, not government.
Paul Ryan
#52. Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul Ryan
#53. If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?
Glenn Beck
#54. The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
Barbara Kingsolver
#55. Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
#56. Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
John F. Kennedy
#57. We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Edward W. Said
#58. The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.
Rand Paul
#59. We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
Harvey Milk
#60. Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
Pink
#61. There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
Marco Rubio
#62. EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.
Ellen Malcolm
#63. Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better.
Cory Doctorow
#64. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
Michael D. O'Brien
#65. And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
Roy Moore
#66. The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.
Bill Hicks
#67. when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.
Jean Webster
#68. The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
Christopher Gadsden
#69. My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
Patrick Henry
#70. We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.
Susan Polis Schutz
#71. It's tough to follow Jesus while clutching on to our rights, our honor, our reputation. This kingdom stuff isn't for the fainthearted.
Preston Sprinkle
#72. I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
Debbie Harry
#73. But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
Roy Moore
#74. All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights ... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.
Dave Brat
#75. It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.
Herb Kohl
#77. Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.
Henry Clay
#78. The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.
Pat Buchanan
#79. Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.
Edward Snowden
#80. So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)
Krishna Menon
#81. By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Sextus Propertius
#82. When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.
John C. Calhoun
#83. Life is filled with all goods and bads around each one of us,It's our rights to choose the path and we are responsible of all our deeds and consequences.
OctavE Life
#84. The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.
Dick Durbin
#85. If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.
Jacob Schiff
#86. What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Voltaire
#87. There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets.
Neil Harbisson
#88. The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Jesse Ventura
#89. As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff
#90. Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.
Fulton J. Sheen
#91. We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.
Diana Peterfreund
#92. I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.
Luke Scott
#93. It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.
Naomi Wolf
#95. Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
Marco Rubio
#96. The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
Maya Angelou
#97. The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges ...
George Washington
#98. The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.
George Washington
#99. We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.
Ron Paul
#100. Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.
Chris Cuomo
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