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Rights Quotes
"The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial."
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"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
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"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."
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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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"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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"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."
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"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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"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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"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
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"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."
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"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
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"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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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"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."
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"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
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"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
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"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 electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum."
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"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
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"Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes."
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"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority."
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"The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy."
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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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"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
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"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."
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"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."
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"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights."
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"The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights."
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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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"We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve."
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"My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash."
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"A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake."
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"Property has its duties as well as its rights."
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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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"Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap-I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice-and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you."
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"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."
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