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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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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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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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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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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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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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
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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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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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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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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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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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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 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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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 proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
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Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
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I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.
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Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.
