The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.
I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.
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.
