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• My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Years, Lasts

  "Joely Richardson: the 'lies' about my family in new book" by Joely Richardson, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2011.

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• I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

  Elton John

  Gay, Thinking, Should Have

  "Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong". usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 12, 2008.

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• You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

  Sally Field

  Issues, Helping, Feels

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gay, Support, Republican

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Self, People

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• URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  New York, Expression, Cities

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2534, Delphi Classics

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• The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

  Ralph Nader

  Impact, Names, Addresses

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• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

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• The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

  Brian Cox

  Fun, Religion, Opinion

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Expression, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.

  Niall Ferguson

  Country, Years, Law

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• I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

  James Cromwell

  Believe, Animal, Way

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• My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

  Susan Dorothea White

  Passion, Family Love, Issues

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• When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

  William Wells Brown

  Change, Mother, Boys

  William Wells Brown (2012). “The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

  David Duke

  Country, Dukes, Spending

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• The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Expression, Sacred

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• I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

  David Prowse

  Fundraising, Campaigns, Bigs

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• The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Commitment, Fundraising

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• Well, the United States has said that the disarmament of Iraq is the top priority, but we have also noted that there are many other United Nations Security Council Resolutions which are on the books, including the necessity to respect the human rights of all the citizens of Iraq that we're very interested in.

  Richard Armitage

  Book, Iraq, Priorities

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• Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations. The reality we live in presents us with profound challenges, the need to effectively use all of our resources, and the need to prepare for any development, near or far. The IDF will protect the security and the future of the state. The IDF will provide the response when the order is given.

  Ehud Barak

  Reality, Israel, Order

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• No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Religious, Israel, Egypt

  "Muslim Brotherhood's rise sparks concern democracy will be fleeting in Egypt", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2012.

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• People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty pledge, who won't put their beliefs in writing, who won't endorse the Freedom Agenda, we should be asking them some very very hard questions. Very hard questions. Because you know what, they get away with it. We hear what goes on in closed doors in Olympia. We hear them say the opposite of what they say publicly.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Writing, Doors

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• [The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Law, People

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• These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood.

  Garry Robbins

  Senior, Brother, Opportunity

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• Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Government, Self, Modification

  "Alan Keyes / Alan Dershowitz debate". www.keyesarchives.com. September 27, 2000.

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