Rights Quotes
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Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.
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Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.
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People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.
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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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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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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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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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'Peace' means rules respected by everyone - big or small, rich or poor - means cooperation. It means respect for human rights and dignity.
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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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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.
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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 don't believe gun owners have rights.
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We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.
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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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I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.
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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.
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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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I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
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Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
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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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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.
