Joseph Priestley Quotes
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Joseph Priestley
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
Yair Lapid
When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
Dana Brunetti
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
Ward Churchill
I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
Sam Brownback
I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
Samuel Alito
The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
I don't think about delivery. I don't think about mechanics. I just think about throwing hard.
Eric Gagne
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
Lisa See
Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
Mae Jemison
Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Joseph Priestley