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Rights Quotes
"I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that."
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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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"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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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever."
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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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"International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights."
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"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
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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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"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."
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"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
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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 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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"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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"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
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"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
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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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"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 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."
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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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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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"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."
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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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"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 last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected 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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"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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"My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash."
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"Therefore, states are equal in natural 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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"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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"Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them."
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