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• India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.

  Henry Paulson

  Religious, Lying, Commitment

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• The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, Forever, Battle

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• We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Three, Earth

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• It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

  Allen West

  Civil Rights, Legislation, Democrat

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• Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

  Anthony Douglas

  Animal

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• When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

  Roger Scruton

  Gratitude, Resentment, Claims

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• The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

  Fredric Wertham

  Achievement, Movement, Dignity

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• A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

  Ivan Allen, Jr.

  Atlanta, Special, Eras

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• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  Zainab Salbi

  Loss, Speaks Out, Inheritance

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• I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

  Wallace Stegner

  Humble, Responsibility, Men

  Wallace Stegner, James Hepworth (1998). “Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner”

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• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  Joan Halifax

  War, Buddhism, Practice

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• As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Justice, Enlightenment

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• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  David Suzuki

  Country, Sri Lanka, Records

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• Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

  James Hansen

  Kings, Jail, Issues

  "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.

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• People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.

  Danica Patrick

  Animal, People, Tree

  "News and notes from Daytona 500 media day" by Bob Pockrass, abcnews.go.com. February 14, 2015.

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• A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

  Alf Landon

  Government, Minorities, Guarantees

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• I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

  Richard L. Hanna

  Thinking, Assault, Seems

  "Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2012.

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• EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Fighting, Choices, Proud

  "Lincoln's First Ad: 'I Don't Answer To My Party'" by Mike Memoli, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

  Lynn Samuels

  Thinking, White, People

  "Supreme Injustice? Revisiting Election 2000". "CNN The Point with Greta Van Susteren", www.cnn.com. June 19, 2001.

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• What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Government, Citizens

  "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877". Book by William Bruce Wheeler, Volume 2, p. 149, January 1, 2011.

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• If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

  George Nethercutt

  Guarantees That, Justice, Generations

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• We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Air, Democracy, Way

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• No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

  Edmund A. Opitz

  America, Government, People

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• The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

  Sharon Anthony Bower

  Compassion, Differences, Our Words

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• It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

  "Do Our Rights Come From The Constitution?". www.fff.org. June 1, 1999.

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