Rights Quotes
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There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.
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I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
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India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
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I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
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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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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
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If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't stand the light of day.
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
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Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
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Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.
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The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
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It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.
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The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
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Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
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I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
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The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
