Rights Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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 a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

  James Hunter

  Responsibility, Leader, Accountability

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business

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• I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill

  Kesha

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.

  Ambrose

  Men, Use, Earth

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• What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.

  Bill Drayton

  Powerful, Thinking, Hands

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• For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.

  Malina Suliman

  Art, Husband, Dolls

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.

  Malina Suliman

  Wall, Voice, People

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  Barack Obama

  Agreement, Environmental, Trying

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". www.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Our Society, Should

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

  Jamie Bell

  Children, Growing Up, Fighting

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Issues, Minorities, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Play, Common Sense

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

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• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Pride, Guarantees That

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

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• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  Orrin Hatch

  Hands, Order, Law

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• Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Liberty, Moral

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  Depression, War, Struggle

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Ideas, Bills, Belief

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• The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005

  George W. Bush

  Heart, July, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address to the people of London on the terrorist bombings, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 7, 2005.

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• A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Law, Guarantees That

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• Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.

  Larry Elder

  Country, Media, People

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