Rupert Friend Quotes
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
Aaron McGruder
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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.
Garrett Hardin
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Adam Cohen
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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.
Ban Ki-moon
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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.
A. Philip Randolph
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
Yair Lapid
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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?'
Dana Brunetti
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Ward Churchill
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
Warren Spector
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
Calvin Johnson
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Pam Grier
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If I start to go around and look for stuff that's being written about me or about the band, chances are I'm not going to find what I'm looking for or what I'd want to be hearing. If I go out and look for it and it's out there, I'm really going to notice when it's not. And I'd hate to think that that would impact any decisions I'm making.
Tad Kubler
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When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
Scott Joplin
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Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
Iman
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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
Rupert Friend