Rights Quotes
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Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.
Paul Craig Roberts -
I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.
Anne Hathaway
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I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
Phil Crane -
Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.
Sarah McBride -
The true source of rights is duty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
David D. Cole -
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
Steve Stockman -
The Constitution was never amended to take away rights from a group of Americans.
Evan Wolfson
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But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.
David Duke -
Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.
Jorge Ramos -
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.
Winnie Byanyima -
We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.
Suzan DelBene -
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison -
In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."
Sarah Dessen -
This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement
Chris Larson -
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.'
Nat Hentoff -
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony -
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.
Bernard Lewis -
No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level... “No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level... A Power which interferes with its people only in certain respects cannot increase its warlike potential beyond certain limits. To pass them, it must revolutionize those respects and give itself fresh prerogatives.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
Cecile Richards -
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
Cecily McMillan -
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Stjepan Mesic -
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.
Etta Semple