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Rights Quotes
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
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"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 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."
16
"If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others."
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"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
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"Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights."
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"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
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"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
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"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
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"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
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"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
7
"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."
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"It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law."
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"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."
6
"In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre."
6
"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."
6
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
6
"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
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"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
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"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."
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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
5
"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."
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"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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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
5
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
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"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
5
"The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve."
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"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
4
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
4
"Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance."
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"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
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"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
4
"Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights."
4
"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."
4
"There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former."
4
"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
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"It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890."
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