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Rights Quotes
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
147
"If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others."
69
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
63
"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
59
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
58
"Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man."
58
"In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre."
57
"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."
56
"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."
55
"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."
52
"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
50
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
50
"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."
49
"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever."
49
"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."
49
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
47
"International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights."
47
"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
47
"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."
46
"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."
46
"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
46
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
46
"I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that."
45
"Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights."
45
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
45
"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
45
"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
44
"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
44
"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."
44
"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
44
"Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class power who were among the first group to use the term "power feminists." They also were the group that began to suggest that one could be feminist and anti-abortion. This another misguided notion. Granting women the civil right to have control over our bodies is a basic feminist principle. Whether an individual female should have an abortion is purely a matter of choice. It is not anti-feminist for us to choose not to have abortions. But it is a feminist principle that women should have the right to choose."
43
"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
41
"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."
41
"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
40
"But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights."
40
"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance."
39
"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."
39
"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."
38
"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."
38
"Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights."
38
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