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.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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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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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
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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.
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Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson
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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
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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.
