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"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
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"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."
"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."
"The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs " the word is not too extreme " to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us."
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!"
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."
"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."
"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."
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