Best Our Rights Sayings
97 Our Rights quotes by 76 unique authors
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President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans.…
— Denis McDonough
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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…
— Jack Antonoff
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The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
— Benjamin Jealous
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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…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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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…
— Ellen Malcolm
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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…
— Susan Polis Schutz
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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…
— Edward Snowden
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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…
— John Henninger Reagan
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The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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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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…
— Desmond Tutu
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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
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Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
— Marco Rubio
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But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our…
— Marco Rubio
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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…
— Marco Rubio
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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
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All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
— John Stossel
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We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear,…
— Robert Toombs
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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
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...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…
— Naomi Wolf
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Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from…
— Mark Levin
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The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt…
— Mark Levin
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Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
— Maya Angelou
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