Rights Quotes
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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.
Finn Jones -
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.
A. Philip Randolph
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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.
Gary Johnson -
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.
Ban Ki-moon -
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
Ed Koch -
I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
Stephen Hadley -
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
Jack Schwartz -
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
Callie Khouri
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
J. A. Konrath -
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole -
War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
J. B. Pritzker -
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
Orville Redenbacher
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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.
Olympia Snowe -
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.
Maya Angelou -
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Rand Paul -
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
Samantha Power -
It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
William Graham Sumner -
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.
Caleb Cushing
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I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.
Eva Longoria -
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.
Maggie Nelson -
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
D. A. Carson -
I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
Kate del Castillo