Rights Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.
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Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.
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If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
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Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.
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Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.
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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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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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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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We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.
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Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of 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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We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.
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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.
