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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
"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!"
"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."
"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."
"Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them."
"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
"It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments."
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"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."
"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
"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."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."
"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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