Rights Quotes
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Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.
Lata Mangeshkar -
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Hanna Rosin
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
Basmah bint Saud -
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Adam Cohen -
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy -
I am passionate about human rights.
Hannah Simone -
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
Carlos Fuentes
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
Warren Spector -
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw -
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
Yair Lapid -
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
Kate Thompson -
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo -
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
Tabatha Coffey -
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps -
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
Patricia Highsmith -
States Rights died at Appomattox.
Salmon Portland Chase -
We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
Federica Mogherini -
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
Naomi Wolf -
In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection.
Nirmala Srivastava -
In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
Fernando Alonso -
It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
Harry A. Blackmun