Rights Quotes
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If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.
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Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.
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We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise.
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I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
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When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.
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When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.
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If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would do.
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The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
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Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
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I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
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My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.
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We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
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In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .
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I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
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Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.
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I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.
