Rights Quotes
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The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
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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 need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.
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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 modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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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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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
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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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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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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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When women fight to protect their rights ... they hang on longer than the men
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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”
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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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Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.
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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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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
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In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.
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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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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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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
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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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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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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
