Rights Quotes
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The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.
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Whether you're gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there's anything I can do to champion the cause and further it, I will, shy of getting arrested.
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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.
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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
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The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
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I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
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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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Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.
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To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
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Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
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Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
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I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
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I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.
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It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
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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.
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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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Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.
