Rights Quotes
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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 -
When women fight to protect their rights ... they hang on longer than the men
Edith Rogers
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I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
Nita Ambani -
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.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.
J. M. Roberts -
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
David Duke -
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.
Harvey Milk
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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
Tim Ferriss -
Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
Adolf Hitler -
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
Dalai Lama -
Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.
William Ernest Hocking -
Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
Mahatma Gandhi -
One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.
Wendy Kaminer -
Man's legal rights are everywhere in collision with man's natural rights; hence the deep-rooted and wide-spread unrest of modern civilization. The only sacred right of property is the natural right of the working man to the product, which is the creation of his labor. The legal right of the capitalist to rent and interest and profit is the absolute denial of the natural right of labor.
Albert Parsons -
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
Saddam Hussein -
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.
Alex Epstein -
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
Mahatma Gandhi
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First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
George W. Norris -
Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.
Joseph Stiglitz -
Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.
George Clooney -
I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.
Adam Bandt