Colin Kaepernick Quotes

I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around. Don't hesitate to do so.

If our Constitution is destroyed, if our right to free speech is denied, then we have the right to use whatever means necessary to survive and advance our position.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

People have a right to criticize.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

I think people have a right to their point of view.