Rights Quotes
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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.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.
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I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
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Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.
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The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.
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Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson
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Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
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I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.
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The American military indefinitely detains individuals - and tortures some of them - and the Senate votes to strip them of their rights
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
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I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have come to us from cultural groups within which women have absolutely no rights. They do not have a voice of their own and they are totally dependent on their fathers, brothers or husbands. That applies to North Africa and that applies to large parts of the Middle East. It isn't always linked to Islam.
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Whether you're gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there's anything I can do to champion the cause and further it, I will, shy of getting arrested.
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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
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What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
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As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.
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Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we should have the same rights as men.
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The world need strong leadership for women's rights.
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We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
