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Rights Quotes
"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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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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"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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"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."
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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 mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
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"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
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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 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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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
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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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"The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected 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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"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."
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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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"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
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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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"Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes."
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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 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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"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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"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 weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
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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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"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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"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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"Property has its duties as well as its rights."
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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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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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