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"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
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"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
"The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights."
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
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"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
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