Rights quotes

“- Dr. Jaquith: If you had deliberately and maliciously planned to destroy your daughter's life, you couldn't have done it more completely.
- Mrs. Henry Vale: How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
- Dr. Jaquith: A child has rights, a person has rights, to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith
Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to a court appointed attorney. You have the right to sing the blues. You have the right to cable TV... that's very important. You have the right to sublet. You have the right to paint the walls... no loud colors.”
Steve Guttenberg - Carey Mahoney

“You have the right to remain silent - so shut the fuck up!”

Sam Elliott - Charlie Falon

“Don't you think it's funny that if I grab a woman's ass and she punches me, she's fighting for her rights, but if a faggot grabs my ass and I punch his lights out, I'm a homophobe?”
Ryan Phillippe - Mr. Parker

“- Frederick Aiken: Why did I fight for the Union if my rights aren't assured? You tell me.
- Edwin Stanton: Fine words for rallying the troops, not for running a nation. They assassinated our president, and someone must be held accountable. The people want that.”
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken
Kevin Kline - Edwin Stanton

“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.”
Winona Ryder - Jo March

“- Peter Howard: We are citizens of an American nation! And our rights are being threatened by a tyrant three thousand miles away!
- Benjamin Martin: Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?”

Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“Give me a little credit, George. I'm not going to marry some ape who wants me to wear go-go boots and an apron.”
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Annie Banks

“Civil rights, brotherly love, all that shit, that gets left at the front gate.”

F. Murray Abraham - Virgil Cane

“What makes this woman think she can speak among men?”

Peter Mensah - Messenger

“- Colonel Robert Moore: Wouldn't it behoove me to retain the services of an attorney? I know a good one.
- Brenner: Two problems there. First the obvious. There are no good ones. Second... you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army. You have no rights to an attorney. You have no right to remain silent. And if you don't cooperate, I may...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Woods - Colonel Moore
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“Animals have rights! Animals have rights!”
Réal Andrews - Mark

“- Floyd Poteet: We've got our rights.
- Detective Mike Lowrey: Why don't you exercise your right to shut the fuck up?”

Michael Shannon - Floyd Poteet
Will Smith - Detective Mike Lowrey

“You have the right to be dead.”
Brandon Lee - Johnny Murata

“Nobody hardly even remembers Medgar anymore - whites or blacks - and that's a goddamn shame. Cause whatever rights the black man has around here now, he has them because of something called civil rights movement. And for a long time in the state of Mississippi, back before the newspapers and television, back before the fancy speeches, my brother...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Cobbs - Charlie Evers

“An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can.”
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say ain't gonna be much.”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“- Nadya: I'm entitled to my lawyer...
- Miller: You're entitled to shit. You're entitled to tell me what you know.”
Natalija Nogulich - Nadya
Clark Gregg - Miller

“I know my rights, I demand to see my urologist.”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“An extinct animal brought back to life has no rights. It exists because we made it. We patented it. We own it.”
Arliss Howard - Peter Ludlow

“I have no respect for pacifism. It's a morally bankrupt belief. Pacifists believe that they have the right not to kill, but others always die in defence of that right.”
Roy Scheider - Don Falcone

“The last struggle for Constitutional rights is being waged over drugs.”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“- J.T.: We're in for, uh... What do you call deer murder?
- Jeff Andrews: Bambicide.
- J.T.: Right. Bambicide, right. And conspiracy to deprive a furry woodland creature of its civil rights.”
Adam LeFevre - J.T.
Mark Arnott - Jeff

“- Slimey Lawyer: Attempted murder? Well, it's not like he killed someone. This is a clear violation of my client's civil rights.
- Bail Bondsman: Make it aggravated assault and I can make bail, in cash, now!
- Sergeant Warren Reed: Listen, pal, your client's a scumbag, you're a scumbag, and scumbags see the judge on Monday morning! Now, get out...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gregory Poudevigne - Slimey Lawyer
Charles Carroll - Bail Bondsman
Robert DoQui - Sergeant Warren Reed