Rights Quotes
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If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.
Norm Phelps
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Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
Michael McCaul
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The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
Noah Feldman
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To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
Alex Epstein
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Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.
Aviva Chomsky
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If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.
Anwar Ibrahim
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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.
Catherine Ashton
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Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
Alice Schwarzer
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We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.
Mohammad bin Salman
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If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
Steve Stockman
