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Rights Advocacy Quotes

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"For every specific issue, you must be specific about justice: if it is civil rights justice, social justice, economic justice, cultural justice, or self-determination."
"We need to advance the rights of women, minorities, gay people... if we can agree on those things and fundamentally back that up with a common strategy, I won't ever complain."
"It is important that we continue to demand for the promotion of gender equality while paying particular attention to the rights of women, children, girls, and the rights of people living with disabilities."
"I voted for someone who respects my rights to bear arms and my civil liberties."
"Regulators don't want you to have it but it's actually a basic human right."
"Conservatives need to create a culture of demanding their rights."
"Everyone has the right to live the way they live."
"If you believe that men and women should be equal, then this right has to exist because without it, women don't finish education."
"You're a part that has some nobility... you're a part that wants to fight for rights even if it's misguided."
"I just had to come on here and tell the truth about the whole process because I think us as humans we have a right to do that."
"Stand your ground, you deserve a place at the table."
"It's not just a win for them, it's a win for every gun owner who values their rights."
"If you can't argue for the rights of your opponents, then ultimately when it comes to you having your rights threatened, there'll be no one to argue for you."
"Is it right that we have to beg for the basic right to Religious Freedom protected by the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution? No."
"It is the most vulnerable and the most marginalized who delivered this democratic majority and so it's up to us now for congress to act to meet the moment and to deliver on the most basic rights to that coalition of voters."
"I support Jerry's rights to film in public. He's not breaking the law."
"Stand up for your rights, don't give up the fight."
"That is infringement on my right to speak on canceling unless you waive that requirement."
"America is exceptional. As Americans, we cherish our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"I have a very huge network of defense attorneys and people behind me."
"I support the First Amendment in free speech."
"That's what it's all about guys, is conversation, education, standing up for your rights."
"Rights are not scary and shouldn't be anywhere else right now."
"It's so obvious you're so obviously for equal rights for everyone."
"The only way to keep a right is to exercise it."
"The bottom line: Hindus need to stand up for their own rights and start standing up for their own identity."
"I stand up for our basic and human rights because we are still human beings whether vaccinated or unvaccinated."
"We need to get out and vote. If you care about your second amendment rights, you need to vote."
"I'm tired of seeing people go to jail, I'm tired of having their rights stripped away."
"We're never going to shy away and be bashful about speaking up for those rights and for individuals to live as they deem fit, as they want to live."
"The Biden administration absolutely supports the Housing First approach. They feel that in a society as ours that housing should be a right and not a privilege."
"This was an account of the campaign to determine the right to sleep."
"Frederick Douglass: 'The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.'"
"Everybody deserves a right to be able to exist and be able to have access to all of the things they want to have access to based on their size."
"Your right to petition your government, however restricted, could still be key to helping get this country back to where it belongs."
"It's a very disrespectful sign... to fight for our rights... and make sure the government is respecting our rights."
"Trans women deserve every right that I have, they are women."
"We should be allowed to discuss material reality and tell the truth."
"Everybody should have the right to have their own opinions."
"What protects our rights here is the rule of law and the structural design of our Constitution."
"Nobody has the right not to be offended. Everyone has the right to criticize religion, mock religion, and to express themselves in any way they choose, and no one should ever be attacked or persecuted for doing that."
"If you have a truth to tell, you have every right to expose and to tell that truth."
"Your rights are based on your ability to litigate and advocate on behalf of those rights in a courtroom."
"I am a real American, fight for the rights of every man!"
"There is no excuse for any hard-working American citizen to have to genuflect before an official and pay a fee and get a license in order to exercise an enumerated constitutionally protected right." - Joel Persinger
"Our Supreme Court has been captured by the radical right, with roots in the Federalist Society, committed to taking away freedoms and rights that most of us cherish."
"Sexual education is a fundamental part of sexual reproductive rights."
"I think if anything we need to start looking at the attack on gun owners from last week as being an attack on rights in general not just an attack on one particular hobby a particular sport a particular way of life whatever it is."
"Hope is what drives us to continue our rights."
"Women deserve protections from men, yes they do."
"Native communities deserve more than just being notified that things are happening; they should be active partners in decision-making processes that affect their lands and their rights."
"Your freedoms are worth fighting for and that being free is not selfish it is a human right."
"Stop asking them to give us our rights, we need to challenge them."
"I'm for children's rights just as much as for women's rights."
"Animals have a right to life, and that's it, right?"
"We demand freedom from exploitation, comprehensive access to health and childcare."
"Please stop using my photo to promote your transphobic agenda. Thank you."
"If I start yelling and screaming you guys, we just want to make sure that our rights are respected and rights over feelings."
"...some people in Lee's position would see is curtailing particular rights right so there's been more and in not just Congress but legislative strategies at the state level to deal with questions like reproductive rights."
"People who are oppressed, they have a right to feel oppressed."
"I stand for human rights and I stand for animal rights and I stand for the planet."
"We started off as a movement to try to correct inequalities in today's society, a noble movement directed at providing people with equal rights."
"Our very dystopian looking future might not be that different from a China if we don't start pushing back and standing up for our rights."
"Empathy opens the door of our moral concern, then laws and rights wedge that door open."
"I support women. I support that women should have the same rights as men."
"You cannot deny access to a service dog. It don't freaking matter."
"I'm all for people being who they are and fighting for everybody's rights."