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"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."

"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."

"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."

"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."

"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
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"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition."


"It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love."


"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order."


"I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency."


"My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily."


"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
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