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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
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"Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man."
"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
"Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap-I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice-and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you."
"The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy."
"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."
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"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"
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