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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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• Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Violence, Form

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.27, Trinity University Press

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• I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

  Kerry Washington

  Movie, Writing, Stories

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 29, 2001.

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• When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Nashville, Race, Use

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• Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.

  John Yoo

  War, Decision, President

  "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights" by John Yoo, www.wsj.com. May 26, 2004.

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• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  Evaristo Nugkuag

  Moving, Cutting, Difficult Situations

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• Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.

  Traian Basescu

  Moving, Europe, Law

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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