Rights Quotes
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
Gary Locke
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
Stephen Hadley
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If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
Hassan Nasrallah
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Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
Hafez Ibrahim
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I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.
Taslima Nasrin
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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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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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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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
Xavier Dolan
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Ed Markey
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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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I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
Evita Peron
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The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
Aaron McGruder
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
Gabriel Byrne
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
Yahya Jammeh
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Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.
Umar
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi