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"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever."
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"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
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"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."
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"How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human."
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"Freedom and dignity for everyone in the world, is the hardest thing to achieve, but we must not give up."
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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
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"The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!"
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"Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation."
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"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."
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"By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?"
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"Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade."
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"The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development."
Development
"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."
Development
"We need new partnerships for peace and security."
Peace
"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement."
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"This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world."
World
"In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."
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"The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community."
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"Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security."
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"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever."
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