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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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• 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 Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  Fawn Hall

  Thinking, House, Citizens

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• The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Urbanization

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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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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• 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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• As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized...
  I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote.
  I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom.
  I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

  Common

  Kids, Caring, Hands

  "72nd Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2015.

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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 God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

  Roy Moore

  Men, Giving, Away From You

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 12, 2002.

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• We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Followers, Tradition, Should

  "Campaigners at Girl Summit call for end to female genital mutilation" By Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. July 22, 2014.

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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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• If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

  Rand Paul

  Giving Up, Giving, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

  Penn Jillette

  Government, People, Safety

  Penn Jillette (1997). “Penn & Teller's how to Play in Traffic”, Boulevard

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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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• We will never find joy in church membership when we are constantly seeking things our way. But paradoxically, we will find the greatest joy when we choose to be last. That's what Jesus meant when He said the last will be first. True joy means giving up our rights and preferences and serving everyone else.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Jesus, Giving Up, Mean

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.36, B&H Publishing Group

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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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• 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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• We don't have rights until we claim them.

  Richard Bach

  Claims

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• There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

  Michelle Moran

  Lafayette, Natural, Sovereignty

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• A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.

  Mike Farrell

  Children, Safety, World

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• Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

  Andy Rooney

  Speak, Equal, American Woman

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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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