Maya Angelou Quotes
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
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Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.