Rights Quotes - Page 36

• Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Morality

  "We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

  Ai Weiwei

  Passion, Independent, Imagination

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist'". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing concluded, just as his civil rights record and views had been the most controversial part of his record when the hearing began.

  Mel Watt

  Views, Civilization, Judging

  "Reid Announces Opposition to Roberts" by Brian Wilson, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2005.

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• And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.

  Gary Ackerman

  Party, Government, Political

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• For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

  Chris Cannon

  Years, Fundamentals, Notable

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• In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

  Neal Boortz

  Civilization, White, People

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

  Leo Hindery

  Couple, Responsibility, Desire

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• Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

  Charles Schumer

  People, Conservation, Mainstream

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• I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

  Sojourner Truth

  Men, Water, Want

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• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Eight, Years, Waiting

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• Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

  Khaled Mashal

  Play, Russia, Important

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• We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder … whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" … The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.

  John Rosemond

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Age

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fighting, Men, Self

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• In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.

  John Muir

  Brother, Men, Compassion

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.43, Great West Books

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• Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Believe, Egypt

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• When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, People, Abuse

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• President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

  Roy Wilkins

  War, Men, President

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• If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Church, Saint

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• First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

  George W. Norris

  War, Law, Gone

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Struggle, Issues, States

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Should Have, Land

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Real, Men

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910

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• The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out of kindness. These rights were fought for by many highly evolved women who cared about the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Daughter, Attitude, Kindness

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