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"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."
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"The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
"Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes."
"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question."
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"The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul."
"Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts."
"If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors."
"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil."
"After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history."
"Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order."
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