Rights Quotes
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It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
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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.
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I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.
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People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.
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I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the George W. Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.
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There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.
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If they are ignored, Alice Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'
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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
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I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
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If state rights and laissez faire meant an end to force bills, removal of Federal troops from Southern state capitals, and abandonment of intervention in local politics and race discriminations, the South was for them strong. On the other hand the South had no patience with state rights and laissez faire if they implied abandonment of Federal subsidies, loans of credit, and internal improvements. Of these the South believed she had not had anything like her just share and she meant to have a lot more.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.
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In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.
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The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
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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.
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I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.
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Community living is about having the same rights and choices as everyone else.
