Rights quotes

“Supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.”
Daryl Hannah

“We're not asking you to change the country. That's already happened without any court's permission. We're asking you to protect the right of the country to change.”

Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a communist if you want to be a communist, leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.”
Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton

“It don't make no kind of sense. Big old ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs-shoot right outta chicken's ass!”
Cicely Tyson - Sipsey

“I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.”
Richard Dimitri - Roman Troy Moronie

“- Maud Watts: You a suffragette, Mrs. Ellyn?
- Edith Ellyn: Yes, well I consider myself more a soldier, Mrs. Watts.”
Carey Mulligan - Maud Watts
Helena Bonham Carter - Edith Ellyn

“It's against the law to ask for help in Grouchland! You have the right to scream your head off. Should you give up the right to scream your head off, someone who will scream their head off... will be provided for you.”
Jerry Nelson - Grouch Cop

“- Katherine G. Johnson: How can you be possibly ogling these white men?
- Mary Jackson: It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every color.”
Taraji P. Henson - Katherine G. Johnson
Janelle Monáe - Mary Jackson

“Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.”
Bea Arthur

“- Franz Jägerstätter: I don't know everything. A man may do wrong, and he can't get out of it to make his life clear. Maybe he'd like to go back, but he can't. But I have this feeling inside me, that I can't do what I believe is wrong.
- Judge Lueben: Do you have a right to do this?
- Franz Jägerstätter: Do I have a right not to?”
August Diehl - Franz Jägerstätter
Bruno Ganz - Judge Lueben

“Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness.”
Leo G. Carroll - Sen. Morton

“- David: Well, you have certainly captured your public's imagination.
- Donald Horner: They can have it back if I can keep my home.”
Stavros Demetraki - David
Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner

“If people want to stay attached to their radioactive walkie-talkies it's their business. Do I like what they're doing? No. Do I like them? Probably not. Do I respect their right to do as their little shallow hearts desire? I most certainly do. So, no, I don't care.”
Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner

“You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.”
Sally Hawkins

“- Erwin Griswold: Gender equality as a civil right?
- Professor Brown: When everyone’s aggrieved and everyone’s a victim. It’s what the ACLU does, divide the country into smaller and smaller subgroups.”
Sam Waterston - Erwin Griswold
Stephen Root - Professor Brown

“The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.”
Fiona Shaw

“If we're going to insist that a Christian's right to believe is subordinate to all the rights, then it's not a right!”
Jesse Metcalfe - Tom Endler

“Ever since I’ve known you, you talk like a radicle, but you live like a rich guy. I don’t think you’re willing to lose all of this just to do the right thing.”

Louis C.K. - Arlen Hird

“It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- Frank: I just got a call from the Labor department. I can't legally keep you on as an employee... because I've been informed that you're technically...
- Ted: Technically not a person. Yeah. Jesus Christ.”

Bill Smitrovich - Frank
Seth MacFarlane - Ted

“Number one, no man ought to stay poor so another man can get rich. Number two, no man ought to tell another man what you got to live for or what he's got to die for. Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest and there ain't no man ought to be able to take that away from you. Number four, every man is a man. If you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

Our daughters' daughters will adore us and they'll sing in grateful chorus, "Well done, sister suffragettes."
Glynis Johns - Mrs. Banks

“- King Edward VIII: Haven't I any rights?
- King George VI: Many privileges.
- King Edward VIII: Not the same thing.”

Guy Pearce - King Edward VIII
Colin Firth - King George VI

“Even though we live in terrortown, we deserve respect.”
Teyonah Parris - Lysistrata

“- Judge: Ms. Jackson please control your client or I will hold you both in contempt of court.
- Ted: Oh piss off! All right? I'm standing up for me, and I 'm standing up for the homos! We deserve respect!
- Samantha Jackson: Ted shut up!”
Ron Canada - Judge
Seth MacFarlane - Ted
Amanda Seyfried - Samantha