Rights quotes

- Ella Khan: The children have a right to know.
- George Khan: What do you mean, "right"?

Linda Bassett - Ella Khan
Om Puri - George Khan

“I'm only three minutes late. They should wait a thousand years for the right to vote. That would make them impatient! I'm talking about women.”
Forest Whitaker - Bernard

“- Virginia Brush: She was right too.
- Biff Grimes: If a man can't get liberties here, where can he?”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
James Cagney - Biff Grimes

- President: I can't deny you the right to protest, that's in the first amendment and God forbid that should change. But there's an old saying: "You can't run into a crowded theater and yell fire"!
- Chuck Murdock: But, sir, what if there is a fire?

Gregory Peck - President
Joshua Zuehlke - Chuck Murdock

“- Valerie McCabe: Fred, Mr. Oliver is a potential fugitive. Lock him up.
- Neal Oliver: Lock me up?
- Valerie McCabe: Of course. We lawyers have to protect our livelihood.
- Neal Oliver: Wait; you can't do this to me. I have rights.
- Valerie McCabe: I know you do, Sweetie. I'm here to protect them.”
Deborah Odell - Valerie McCabe
James Marsden - Neal Oliver

“You have the right to shut up. Anything you say, can and will piss me off! If you can't afford a shyster attorney, we will assign you an overworked loser, who doesn't give a shit and will screw up your case anyway. Now, do you understand your rights?”

Brion James - Detective Harry Ball

- Orin Hanner Sr.: You're violating my constitutional rights.
- Jack Taggart: Mr. Hanner, I promise you, as sure as you stand here now, I'm gonna show you a new meaning to the word "violation".
Kris Kristofferson - Orin Hanner Sr.
Steven Seagal - Jack Taggart

“- Chuck Arnoldi: We'd like to know, is this convoy some sort of protest demonstration? And if it is, what's its purpose?
- Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald: Purpose of a convoy is to keep movin’.”
Brian Davies - Chuck Arnoldi
Kris Kristofferson - Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald

“Whoever holds the conch gets to speak.”
Balthazar Getty - Ralph

“- Tobacco Lawyer: Mr Motley, we have rights here.
- Ron Motley: Oh, you have rights! And lefts, ups, downs and middles. So what?”
Wings Hauser - Tobacco Lawyer
Bruce McGill - Ron Motley

“I'll tell you how this game works, Daniel. We're the cops, we get to ask the questions. You're the suspect, you get to complain about your civil liberties, perhaps get shot, maybe even killed. And it has to stay like that Daniel, otherwise everything falls out of balance.”

Robert Morgan - Melbourne Detective 2

“If I was accused of murder I would have more legal rights than I know what to do with. But when the IRS audits you, they make you think you don't have any rights at all. They make their own laws. And they administer them, and they enforce them, and they prosecute them, and they judge them.”
Edward Herrmann - Harry Johnson

“A girl's got a right to know what kind of hound she's saving herself for.”
Zoe Saldana - Eva

“I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here.”
Katrin Cartlidge - Hannah

“Got so bad you couldn't cage a rat without reading him his rights.”

Val Kilmer - Montgomery

“- Jennifer Spencer: What now?
- Harry Callahan: Now, I guess I'll have to...
- Jennifer Spencer: Read me my rights? And where was all this concern for my rights when I was being beaten and mauled? And where were my sister's rights when she was being brutalized? There is a thing called justice Callahan, and is it justice that they should all just...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sondra Locke - Jennifer Spencer
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“You have the right to remain silent... and all that other shit.”

Joe Don Baker - Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

“We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.”

Raymond Massey - Andy Brock

“You have the right to be stupid as geek motherfuckers.”
Gabriel Casseus - Midget

“- Alex: I won't say a single solitary slovo unless I have my lawyer here. I know the law, you bastards.
- Police Inspector: We'll have to show our little friend Alex here that we know the law too, but that knowing the law isn't everything.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Lindsay Campbell - Police Inspector

“- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: Can't keep me here, chief.
- Chief Jerry Karlin: Maybe I'm not going to keep you in here. Maybe I'm going to blow your brains out.
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: Well, now, I'm no lawyer, but I do believe that's a violation of my rights.”

Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Joe Don Baker - Chief Jerry Karlin

“The telephone has no constitutional right to be answered.”
Walter Matthau - Dan Snow

“- George: I'm white. So what? All men are equal, and all women. The world is a changing place.
- Horace: I won't have an English servant in my house. Bad for the morale. It may cause the whole empire to crumble.
- George: I have my rights.
- Horace: Rights? This is not some namby-pamby suburb of London, this is the Raj!”
Sean Pertwee - George
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Horace

“You have the right not to be tortured, not to be murdered, rights that you took away from Tariq Husseini. You have those rights because of the men who came before you who wore that uniform. Because of the men and women who are standing here right now waiting for you to give them the order to fire.”

Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard

“Mother, you and dad for a long time did not recognize my rights as a human being. You both treated me like chattel. You cannot do with me as you please anymore. We have irreconcilable differences.”
Drew Barrymore - Casey Brodsky