Rights Quotes
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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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The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
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I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.
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People with rights are infinitely in a better position than people who have no rights.
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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.
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
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I don't believe gun owners have rights.
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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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Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
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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."
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A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
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But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.
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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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When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
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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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Freedom is the ability to exercise your will within your rights without the threat of force from anyone else.
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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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Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
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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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I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.
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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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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.
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The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
