“They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man... there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There's no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You're an American citizen first and foremost and that's it.” PeopleIfsMenFirstsValuesSexPracticeRightsSpecialCitizensMarriedConservativeAmerican CitizensConservative Values Author:Michele Bachmann
“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.” ThinkingYoungValuesBlackWhitePoorRichRightsGayRedAgreeConservativeCivil RightsYellowBlack WhiteAmerican ValuesRich PoorConservative Values Author:Jerry Falwell
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” JusticeFreedomLibertyVirtueRightsPoliticianGayHuman RightsConservativeVicesDefenseLibertarianPursuitLiberalismLgbtSenatorsModerationConservatismExtremismFreedom And LibertyMemorial DayFreedom LibertyLimited GovernmentReligious ExtremismLimiting GovernmentLibertarian PartyLimited FreedomPolitical WillLiberty And JusticeAmerica FreedomMemorial Day PoemsVice And VirtueLimiting FreedomMemorial Day RemembranceHappy Memorial DayGreat Memorial DayLiberty And Justice For AllMemorial WeekendPolitical WisdomPolitical ExtremismPursuit Of Justice Author:Barry Goldwater
“Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.” FeelsStatesNatureRightsComfortablePropertyFolksConservativeReluctantProperty Rights Author:Jesse Lee Peterson
“More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.” PeopleCoursesAbilityRightsDeserveConservativeGenderNormTransAdvocacyPortrayal Author:Dean Spade
“I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.” PeopleIfsWantHumansMeanDoeHelpingCarePoorRightsHuman RightsConservative Author:Barbara Bush
“The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.” MenHumansGovernmentIndividualGivenNaturalHuman BeingsRightsDignityAgreeConservativePursueFoundersNatural RightsLive Free Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.” HumansTwoGovernmentIndividualLevelsAttitudeQualityLibertyRightsManagementEnvironmentalHuman RightsConservativeLocalsCivil RightsOpennessStrengtheningIndividual LibertyEnvironmental Quality Book:Conversations with Carter Source: Conversations with Carter
“If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.” IfsPersonsTurnsEvilRightsGayLogicConservativeAssault Author:Amanda Marcotte
“Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.” CausesHurtRightsPoliticianGayElectionConservativeGay MarriageGay RightsBallots Author:Roseanne Barr
“Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.” ThinkingLawOrderRightsJudgingConstitutionConservativeCivil RightsFrankAmerican HistoryJohnsonLaw And OrderFederal Judges Author:Jeff Sessions