Rights Quotes
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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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.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
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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.
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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.
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I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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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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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
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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.
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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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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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Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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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'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
