Protected Rights Quotes

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Our country is defined by the rights we protect, and those of us who fought for freedom and put our lives on the line defended the right of people to do things that we disagree with

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.

The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

Our Constitution protects the rights of people to make abject idiots of themselves. 

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

Laws that impinge your constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living must not be preposterous.

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

It doesn’t matter what the religion of the country or the ruler is so long as minority rights are protected.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.