There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
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.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
