Rights Quotes
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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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Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
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The Constitution was never amended to take away rights from a group of Americans.
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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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Freedom is the ability to exercise your will within your rights without the threat of force from anyone else.
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You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
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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.
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The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.
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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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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
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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 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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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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There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
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He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. How about the rights of woman, I’d like to scream at him. It’s fine to be a great democrat when you’ve a slave to rub your boots on.
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Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.
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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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The true source of rights is duty.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
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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'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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The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
