Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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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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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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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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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
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Either one is factually equal, and consequently morally equal as well; on the other hand, if one is morally equal, there is no reason why one should contest factual equality of rights or simply refuse to grant them.
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Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.
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Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
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There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)
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The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
