Rights Quotes - Page 32

• I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

  Gloria Allred

  Civil Rights, Victim, Attorney

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• We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  People, Needs, Rich

  "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Religion, Born Again, Knows

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• A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Selfish, Mean

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• I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

  Corey Feldman

  Animal, Issues, Mind

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• In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

  Claudio Hummes

  Personality, Support, Effort

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• Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, People, Democracy

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• I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

  Stephen Hadley

  Thinking, America, Democracy

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• We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

  James Inhofe

  Democracy, Privilege, Never Forget

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• Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

  Janis Ian

  Gay, People, Community

  "Janis Ian Talks About Her Grammy Nomination and LGBT Issues". Interview with Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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• The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Ideas, Competition

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• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  Hari Kunzru

  Trials, Records, British

  "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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