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Rights Quotes
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
69
"If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others."
44
"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
40
"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."
37
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
36
"We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty."
33
"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
31
"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."
30
"International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights."
29
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
29
"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."
28
"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
28
"Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man."
28
"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."
27
"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
26
"I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that."
25
"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever."
25
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
25
"The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights."
25
"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
25
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
24
"In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre."
24
"Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights."
24
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
24
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
24
"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
23
"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
23
"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
22
"But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that."
22
"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
21
"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
20
"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."
20
"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."
20
"A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them " or sold at a high cost."
20
"And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have."
19
"The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial."
19
"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."
19
"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever."
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