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• Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Men, Thinking, Liberty

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• Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

  Harold Laski

  Government, States, Known

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• The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

  Richard Viguerie

  Government, Liberty, Firsts

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• Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Home, Israel, Justice

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• To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

  Clare Short

  Roots, Effort, Democracy

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• Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

  William H. Seward

  Hair, Natural, States

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• You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

  Paul Robeson

  Courage, Fighting, People

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  Tammy Bruce

  Pride, Gay, Enough

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.87, Crown Forum

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• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Equality, Achievement, Principles

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• They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.

  Ernst Zundel

  Hate, Taken, Media

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• And occasionally some of the - some of the nations that you will have to - that will be partners in this would probably not be in terms of passing a pure human rights check, be - have everything going for them that you would like to have.

  Hugh Shelton

  Checks, Passing, Partners

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Religion, Lines, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Gerrit Smith

  Respect, Hands, States

  Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.18

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• The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Essentials, Use

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• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  John Trumbull

  Trust, Ties, Nurse

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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• Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

  Marcia Wallace

  Women, Hero, Long

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• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Important, United States

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• Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

  Mel White

  Gay, Democracy, Notable

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• Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.

  Mel White

  Years, Faithful, Twenties

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• Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

  Vito Fossella

  Moving, Ukraine, Goal

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• But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Pitfalls, Unqualified

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, America, Profound

  John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

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• Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.108, tredition

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Class, Long

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