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Rights Quotes
"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."
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"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
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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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"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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"My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash."
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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 only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
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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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"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."
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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 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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"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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"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
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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 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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"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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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes."
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"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."
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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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"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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"Therefore, states are equal in natural 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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"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 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 rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
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"Property has its duties as well as its rights."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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"If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence."
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