Rights Quotes
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I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
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Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.
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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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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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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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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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People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.
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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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I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
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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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Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
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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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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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I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.
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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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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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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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The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
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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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The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
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Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
