Rights Quotes
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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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From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.
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We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.
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Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
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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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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”
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I've always been a staunch supporter of songwriters' rights.
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In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.
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Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
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The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism.
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I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.
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In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.
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Teachers have the right to teach and students have the right to learn. Nobody has the right to take away those rights. Nobody.
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But Israel’s might is useless in a struggle that is not about winning territory but securing democratic rights for all. This is why opposition to the grim realities must be coupled with a battle of ideas in which walls and checkpoints provide no defense. Furthermore, it is why the struggle must take a moral form that offers Israel no excuses for its oppressive measures.
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The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.
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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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I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.
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Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.
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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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Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
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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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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private 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
