Rights Quotes
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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.
Etta Semple -
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
Rupert Friend
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Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
Ernestine Rose -
We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
Harvey Milk -
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
Keith Ablow -
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.
Hassan Nasrallah -
A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
Emily Matchar
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I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.
Caroline Norton -
The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.
Nguyen Minh Triet -
Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
Hillary Clinton -
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
Winnie Byanyima -
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
Annie Laurie Gaylor -
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.
Harry S Truman -
Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
Henrik Ibsen -
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
Albert Camus -
When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
Michael Savage -
The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
Mikhail Bakunin
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary Clinton -
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
Ernestine Rose -
The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.
Noah Feldman -
Always Remember... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.
Ziad K. Abdelnour