It is the duty of American Muslims to participate constructively in the political process, if only to protect their rights, and give support to views and causes they favor.
Our job here is to defend freedom.
The Bill of Rights existed long before President Obama was elected, and as long as I’m a U.S. Senator, I will fight to protect the basic rights and liberties that belong to all of us as American citizens.
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
It was to guard against the encroachment of power, the insatiate ambition of wealth that this government was instituted by the people themselves.
We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights - without hesitation.
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak, because we must hear what they have to say.
We need a President who swears that he will ‘defend and protect the Constitution’ and then do it.
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.
We are going to do everything that we can to protect working families in this country.
We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
