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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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"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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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights."
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"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
World
"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
Nature
"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."
Friendship
"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."
Education
"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
Conversation
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
People
"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
Past
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
Humor
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
Nothing
"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
Civilization
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