Jesse Jackson Quotes

I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love and want to marry. I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.

Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

People should be free to enter into any type of human relationship that they want.

… an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery…. the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion.

No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.

I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.

I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

I support same-sex marriage.

I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.