Rights Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

  Arthur Goldberg

  War, Temptation, Requirements

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• ...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Punishment, Names, Ideas

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• In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Men, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1832). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.587

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• So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Leader, World

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Russia, Space, Olympics

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• There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

  Tommy Rettig

  Dog, Brother, One Day

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• Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights

  Sharan Burrow

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Evo Morales

  Israel, Principles, Doe

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• The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Political, Important, Firsts

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• When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.

  Dick Cheney

  Reading, People, Worry

  www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Animal, Interest

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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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• 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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• If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Secure, Ifs

  Letter to James Madison, 15 Mar. 1789

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• We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education. No one can stop us. We will speak up for our rights and we will bring change to our voice. We believe in the power and the strength of our words. Our words can change the whole world because we are all together, united for the cause of education. And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, Journey, Voice

  Speech at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations, theirworld.org. July 12, 2013.

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• In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
  make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
  rights.

  Julius Nyerere

  Believe, Men, Color

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• I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

  Robert E. Lee

  People, Feelings, Bitter

  "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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• There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored
  men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will
  take a great while to get it going again.

  Sojourner Truth

  Truth, Men, Waiting

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• I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Believe, Able

  "Full Transcript: Charlie Gibson Interviews GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin". Interview with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. November 23, 2009.

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• On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Hands, Democracy

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• The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

  William J. Brennan

  Men, Quests, Dignity

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• Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Iran, Practice, Organization

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• I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Aggravated, Good Service, Consumers

  "Sophie's world". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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• My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Unfinished Business, Issues

  "Clinton: Gay marriage not the end" by Jose Delreal, www.politico.com. February 17, 2014.

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