Right To Be Heard Quotes

Alok Verma cannot be sacked based on the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) report without being heard. PM Modi should not listen to bogus legal brains.

Every man has a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal cords.

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes - they have all been given a voice by the Human Rights Act.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

The fans are entitled to voice their opinion.

It is my birthright, it is my political right, it is my democratic right, it is my constitutional right... that I must open my mouth... my voice... I can raise my voice.

It is necessary today to have money, much money, to enjoy the right to speak ... Silence to the poor!

Victims have a right to be heard and be involved in the process … Traditional Navajo law gives them the right to be made whole.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.

I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant

Every idea, no matter how unpopular, so far as the law is concerned, shall have the same opportunity as every other idea. no matter how popular, to secure the public favor.

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously