Rights Quotes
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
William Hazlitt
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What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.
Dacia Maraini
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I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.
Barack Obama
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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Nowadays, all the world over, we cannot confine the definition of a nationality to the narrow bounds of race, religion etc, Nations are extending the rights of their respective communities even to others who may not belong to them except by their mere residence amongst them and their determination to live and be with them.
Aung San
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Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
Clemence Dane
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I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
Jules Shear
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German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
Adolf Hitler
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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
Barack Obama
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The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.
Urvashi Vaid
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I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
Alice Steinbach
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Southerners who had insisted on states’ rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights.
Andrew Delbanco
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The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
Thomas Sowell
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By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
Scott Fujita
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
Dan Poynter
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I know what is going on here. People want to stand up for their rights. If they're here illegally, most of them are doing it to make a better life for themselves and their families. I'd just like to see them do it the right way.
Eddie Guardado
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People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.
Sasha Cohen
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Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.
Ian Bremmer
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Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.
Paul Craig Roberts
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What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
Ernestine Rose
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It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky