Rights Quotes - Page 24

• Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Bills, Amendments, Bill Of Rights

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• The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Pieces, Natural, Resources

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• The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

  Jim Costa

  Victory, Important, Movement

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• My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Regret, Book, Successful

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• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Iraq, Enemy

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• Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

  Linda Chavez

  White, Violence, Prejudice

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• I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

  Neko Case

  Animal, Thinking, People

  "The banned played on". Interview With Leonie Cooper, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

  Phil Crane

  Government, Hands, People

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• Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Book, People, Next

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• And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel.

  David Duke

  Israel, Holocaust, Weapons

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2006.

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• But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

  David Duke

  People, Heritage, Barack

  "David Duke's View Of An Obama Presidency". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Kings, Roots, Colonialism

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• It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

  John Doerr

  Intellectual, Growth, Spurs

  "Tech leaders: Feds should push broadband" by Patrick Thibodeau, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2002.

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• As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Book, Different, Publishers

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• My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

  Cindy Gallop

  Issues, Causes, Platforms

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• I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

  Frank Gaffney

  Expression, Office, Demand

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• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Suffering, Different, World

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

  Michael Apted

  Writing, Creative, Directors

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• The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Humility, Responsibility

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Country, Thinking, Giving

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• My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Government, Names, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Government, Iran, Funny Things

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• When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.

  Shirin Ebadi

  President, Vote, Warmongers

  "Ebadi: Vote for those who respect human rights". Interview with Roxana Saberi, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2011.

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Years, Two, House

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