Rights Quotes
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What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
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When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
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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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Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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.
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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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Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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The true source of rights is duty.
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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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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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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 believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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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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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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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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Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
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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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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.
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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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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.
