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• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  Bryan Adams

  Rip, Inspiration, World

  FaceBook post by Bryan Adams from Dec 06, 2013

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• The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, People, Safe

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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

  Richard Bach

  Claims

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• Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, God And Nature

  Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. August 23, 2012.

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• It takes no compromise to give people their rights

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, People, Giving

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• Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Boys, Today Is The Day

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

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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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• Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
  necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Art, Merit

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• Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Successful, Good Friend, Drs

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• A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  People, Stories, Ignored

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Human rights for everybody, there is no difference.
  Live on! And be yourself!

  Macklemore

  Being Yourself, Differences, Humans

  Song: Same Love

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• I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Thinking, Movement, Back In The Day

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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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• No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

  Joe Biden

  Ordinary, Care, Constitutional Rights

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• Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

  Michelle Obama

  Issues, Important, Today

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• Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Development, World

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Flames

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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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• You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

  Sally Hawkins

  Thinking, Feminist, 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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• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  James Earl Jones

  New York, Army, Black

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gay, Support, Republican

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