Rights Quotes
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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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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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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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 Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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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.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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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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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
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I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.
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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
