You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
To my dismay, inadequate signage, non-ADA compliant ramps, narrow doorways, and poorly-placed voting machines are preventing hundreds of thousands of people from exercising one of our most basic rights as Americans.
China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.
Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending the Bill of Rights for all Americans.
