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" Quotes and Sayings About rights

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property

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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

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I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we too should have rights!

Know Great Down Right
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

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The air of freedom we breathe today is the result of the sacrifices of thousands of pro-democracy activists, human rights campaigners and others who organised as civil society.

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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

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My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.

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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

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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 the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.

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I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Act Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act
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The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

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We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

Anything As Far As Average Average Person
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Human rights na my property So therefore, you can't dash me my property.

Human right Dash Property My
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Animal wan dash us human rights. Animal can't dash me human rights. Animal can't dash us human rights

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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

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I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Fight Harder His Interests
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
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