Rights Quotes - Page 28

• One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

  William P. Leahy

  Divorce, Issues, People

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• What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Responsibility, America, People

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• I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

  Louise Mensch

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Benefits, Use, Goods

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

  Alfred Marshall

  Law, Wealth, Individual

  Alfred Marshall (1890). “Principles of Economics”

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• While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Constitution, Language

  "Let’s Put It in Writing: Women Are Equal" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Constitution, Protection

  "Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

  David Mixner

  Struggle, Issues, Battle

  "Interview with Evan Wolfson: Marriage Equality and the Presidential Election" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2007.

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• As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

  George B. McClellan

  Military, Permit, Constitutional Rights

  George B. McClellan (1998). “McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union”, p.210, Digital Scanning Inc

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• No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.

  James Morcan

  Government, People, Guy

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• In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

  David Levering Lewis

  Determination, Careers, Self

  "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

  Jello Biafra

  Issues, Feelings, Very Good

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  "Patricia Arquette Just Made a Rally Cry for Women at the Oscars" by Justine Harman, Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. February 23, 2015.

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• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  Octavia Spencer

  Gay, Thinking, Purple

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• It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.

  Samuel Adams

  Army, People, Suffering

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• With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Optimism, Despair

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

  Terrence McNally

  Blessing, Thinking, Alive

  "Terrence McNally: Looking at AIDS Survivors". Interview with Sharon Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. March 4, 1990.

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• I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

  David Horowitz

  Views, Political, Opponents

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• People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

  Antonin Scalia

  Exercise, People, Looks

  "Justice Scalia speaks at Law School". www.chicagomaroon.com. May 09, 2003.

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• I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

  Dwyane Wade

  Mother, Father, Kids

  "Q&A WITH DWYANE WADE: Champion happy to be father figure". Interview with Jill Painter, www.dailybreeze.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

  Al Gore

  Men, Boys, Racist Jokes

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I recognize no rights but human rights.

  Angelina Grimke

  Human Rights, Humans

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• As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Long, Shame

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• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

  John Legend

  Kings, Kids, Leader

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• The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, War, Believe

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