Rights quotes

“- Samantha: They've denied you the same rights as everybody else, just because you're different.
- Ted: Can you get me my life back?”
Amanda Seyfried - Samantha
Seth MacFarlane - Ted

“- David Bennett: We have the right and we have the duty.
- Ezra Lieberman: To do what? To kill children.”
John Rubinstein - David Bennett
Laurence Olivier - Ezra Lieberman

“You can vote too, it's America.”

Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“I have looked for our rights in the laws of nature and can find them only in the laws of political society. I have looked for our rights in the constitution of the English government and found them there! Our rights have been violated.”
Željko Ivanek - John Dickinson

“- Fouquier-Tinville: You no longer have law on your side.
- Robespierre: When the Republic is at stake, we have every right. Never forget that. Say another word and you'll be arrested.”
Roger Planchon - Fouquier-Tinville
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

“Now I bow down to the superiority of the opposite sex in many respects. But from time to time, I believe they should bow down to me.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“For fifty years, we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored. Now we have realised that deeds and sacrifice be the order of the day. We are fighting for a time in which every little girl born into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“We have a right to fight for our country. The same as every other American.”
Terrence Howard - Colonel A.J. Bullard

“- Mr. Brittain: Vera, come back and apologise now. If you can't show me the respect I deserve, then at least show some for our guests.
- Vera Brittain: I don't want a piano. You knew I didn't want one and still you bought it. I won't be bullied by you.
- Mr. Brittain: Oh, I buy her the most expensive gift of her life, but no, I'm bullying.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dominic West - Mr. Brittain
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain
Emily Watson - Mrs. Brittain

“You cannot protect the nation by attacking the right of every man to speak freely without fear.”
Tom Wilkinson - Benjamin Franklin

“- Robert Doob: What are you gonna do? Shoot me?
- Karen McCann: You broke into my house with the intent to do me bodily harm. The law says I have the right to protect myself.”
Kiefer Sutherland - Robert Doob
Sally Field - Karen McCann

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, a really fucked-up one will be provided for you.”
Anthony Mackie - Agent Shavers

“For a country that doesn't give its citizens the right to bear arms, there have been an unusual number of people getting shot, lately.”
Forest Whitaker - Bernard

“Dr. Wigand, I am instructing you not to answer that question in accordance to the terms of the contractual obligations undertaken by you not to disclose any information about your work at the Brown and Williamson tobacco company, and in accordance with the force and effect of the temporary restraining order that has been entered against you by...” (continue)(continue reading)
Wings Hauser - Tobacco Lawyer

“- Bass: What right have you to your niggers?
- Edwin Epps: I bought 'em. I paid for 'em.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: You fellas wanna read me my rights?
- Detective #1: You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to have your face kicked in by me. You have the right to have your balls stomped by him.
[Detective #2 blows Fletch a kiss]
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: I'll... waive my rights.”

Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Tony Longo - Detective #1

“He can get his own girl and his own kid, that's every man's right.”
Ryan Gosling - Luke

“We're clearly soldiers in petticoats, and dauntless crusaders for women's a-votes! Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.”
Glynis Johns - Mrs. Banks

“- Michael Corben: I'm an American citizen and I know my rights.
- Derek Richardson: Corben, don't go asking for special privileges.
- Michael Corben: I wanna speak to the American embassy.
- Derek Richardson: Relax, they already know you're here.
- Michael Corben: What'd they say?
- Derek Richardson: They wished you good luck.”
Richard Grieco - Michael Corben
Michael Siberry - Derek Richardson

“- Fausto Squiriniszu: Wait, I'm entitled to one phone call.
- Dennis: Surely, and you're more than welcome to make one, if we had a phone.”
Taylor Negron - Fausto Squiriniszu
John Candy - Dennis

“- Bethany: You're not with the Fight-to-Lifer's?
- Jay: You mean those fucks with the signs and pictures of dead babies? Shit no. Me and Silent Bob are pro-choice. A woman's body is her own fucking business.”
Linda Fiorentino - Bethany
Jason Mewes - Jay

“- Ambassador Sarek: Your vessel did destroy the USS Grissom, your men did kill Kirk's son. Do you deny these events?
- Klingon Ambassador: We deny nothing. We have the right to preserve our race.
- Ambassador Sarek: You have the right to commit murder?”
Mark Lenard - Sarek
John Schuck - Klingon Ambassador

“Even though I'm no more than a monster - don't I, too, have the right to live?”
Min-sik Choi - Dae-su Oh

“If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you.”
Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: What about freedom of speech? The Constitution?
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: You don't have any rights. You got any complaints you complain to Saddam Insane. You are a marine. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything that you say.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes