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• In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

  Mick Dodson

  Heart, Mean, Ideas

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• Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

  Nathaniel Branden

  Thinking, Judging, Political

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• A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Individualism, Refusal

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.406, Penguin

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• Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Wish, Groups, Guarded

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• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  Bryan Adams

  Rip, Inspiration, World

  FaceBook post by Bryan Adams from Dec 06, 2013

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• The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

  Desmond Tutu

  Challenges, Earth, Environment

  "Facing One of the Greatest Human Rights Challenges of Our Time" by Jackie Jenkins-Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, People, Safe

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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  Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

  Angela Davis

  Justice, Civil Rights, Indivisible

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• It takes no compromise to give people their rights

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, People, Giving

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• Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

  Leighton Meester

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Ridiculous

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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• Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
  necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Art, Merit

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• It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, People, Cases

  "David Bianculli's Top 10 TV Shows Of 2008". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 23, 2008.

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• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Bills, Troops, Citizens

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.254, Knopf

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• I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Liberty

  Cnn National Security Debate, archives.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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• If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Gay

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• It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Couple, Should Have

  "Obama: Axelrod 'mixing up' gay marriage stance" By Jeremy Diamond, Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2015.

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• Human rights for everybody, there is no difference.
  Live on! And be yourself!

  Macklemore

  Being Yourself, Differences, Humans

  Song: Same Love

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• No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Crush, Government, People

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• I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs...but to teach my faith to my children...and to share it with anyone who will listen...that is my right too!

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Belief, Share

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• I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

  Samuel

  Mean, People, Citizens

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• No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

  Joe Biden

  Ordinary, Care, Constitutional Rights

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• Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Development, World

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  L. Ron Hubbard (1959). “Ceremonies of the Founding Church of Scientology”

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Flames

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