Rights Quotes
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Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.
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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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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.
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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'
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In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.
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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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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
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You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.
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Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.
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I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.
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What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
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People with rights are infinitely in a better position than people who have no rights.
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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.
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Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.
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I've always been a staunch supporter of songwriters' rights.
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As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.
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If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.
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I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.
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The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.
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The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.
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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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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.
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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
