Rights Quotes
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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.
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Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
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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.
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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
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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'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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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.
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Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's 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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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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"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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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.
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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
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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.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
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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
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.
