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• Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Shopping, Next

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• Suffering gives us no special rights.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Suffering, Special

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• Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Freedom, Atlanta

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• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  O. Henry

  Kings, Deals, New Deal

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.86, Wordsworth Editions

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• The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Views, Freedom Of Speech

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The Royal Art”

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• I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

  Martina Navratilova

  Children, Animal, Years

  "Martina Navratilova On Staying Fit, Coming Out, Battling Cancer And Transcending Sports". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Country, Character, Progress

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• Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  War, Men, Victory

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• A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

  Israel Shenker

  Religious, Husband, Party

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.

  Tom Wicker

  Character, Men, America

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• Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

  Tom Wicker

  Powerful, Men, Office

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• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Should Have, Independence

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• Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Lying, Views

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Done, Benefits, Enough

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• It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

  John Ashcroft

  Fighting, Citizens, Politics

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• The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

  Carl Sagan

  Mind, Church, Bills

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.552, Ballantine Books

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• America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

  Richard Ford

  America, People, Beats

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• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, London, Firsts

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• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

  Angela Davis

  Prison, Involved

  "PBS Interview with Angela Davis". PBS: Frontline, www.pbs.org. 1998.

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• The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Movement, Women's Rights, Supporter

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• The idea of equal rights was in the air.

  Lucy Stone

  Air, Ideas, Equal

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  William Cowper Brann

  Ignorance, Perfect, Brain

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• Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Democracy, Election, Complicated

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