Quotes of: First-amendment-rights Keyword

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Dixie Lee Ray

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Joe Manchin

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

Peter Camejo

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to...

Accelerando

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Dennis Kucinich

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Jon Meacham

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

John Dingell

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

Adrian Cronauer

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Noam Chomsky

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Neil Gaiman

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Ed Case

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

Henry Rollins

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Corrine Brown

The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

Henry Rollins

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Sam Brownback

I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.

Dina Titus

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Roger Ebert

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

Connie Sellecca

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

Rich Lowry