Rights Quotes
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
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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.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin
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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.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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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.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
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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.
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The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.
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In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
