Quotes on Right

Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.

Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.

I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.

I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?