Rights Quotes
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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”
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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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Feminism is the belief that women should have equal social, economic and political rights. We don’t have these yet, and so that is the point of feminism.
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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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I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
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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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We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
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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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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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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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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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In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
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We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.
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We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.
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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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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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While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.
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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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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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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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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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The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.
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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.
