Rights Quotes - Page 33

• I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

  Bill Keller

  Country, Religious, Promise

  "Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith" by Bill Keller, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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• Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

  Carson Kressley

  Gay, Color, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Want, Debate

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• And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Speaks Out, People, Economic

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

  Azar Nafisi

  Past, Iran, Democracy

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

  Janet Napolitano

  Lasts, Homeland Security, Protected

  "State of the Union" with John King, transcripts.cnn.com. April 19, 2009.

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• I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

  Jean O'Leary

  Believe, People, Groups

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• And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Desire, Feudal System, Relics

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• We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

  Dan Quayle

  Politics, Elimination, Humans

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Wish

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• So I've gone in and out of the UN, working on counter-terrorism, on UN reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

  Edward Luck

  Strong, Years, Issues

  "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.

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• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Europe, Land, World

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• The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.

  Samuel Ray Cummings

  Bears, Arms, Bills

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• In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

  Pauley Perrette

  Men, Color, People

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• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Richard Perle

  Community, Citizens, Claims

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House

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• Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

  Ernestine Rose

  Character, Men, Would Be

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• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  Octavia Spencer

  Parent, Generations, Patterns

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• Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Country, Opening Up, Profound

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• In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, Political, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gay, Views, My Best Friend

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

  Gerrit Smith

  Spring, Grace, Favors

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• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  Larry Sabato

  Design, Republic, Bills

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• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, Intellectual, Safe

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• I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

  Joel Silver

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Producer Joel Silver on Splice, Logan’s Run, Swamp Thing, the Apparation, Project-x, Unknown White Male". Press Day Interview, collider.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

  George Weah

  Country, Believe, Democracy

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