Rights Quotes - Page 8

• Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Goal

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.314, Penguin

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• The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Firsts, Ada, Bills

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• Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Earth, Born, Given

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

  Philip Schuyler

  Police, Referencing, States

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• Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

  Ayn Rand

  Military, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.216, Penguin

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• We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

  John Diefenbaker

  Borders, Maintenance, Heritage

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• In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

  Mick Dodson

  Heart, Mean, Ideas

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• Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Peaceful

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Individualism, Refusal

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.406, Penguin

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• There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Abuse, Atrocities

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• Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

  Rob Brezsny

  Needs, Tests, Information

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.23, Frog Books

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• When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Care, Way

  "Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid Of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook And Google" by Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com. October 11, 2014.

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• I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.

  Ninian Smart

  Agreement, Planets, Interest

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Evil, Good And Evil, Inequality

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• At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

  Marc Edwards

  Hands, Records, Owners

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• Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.21, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

  Waris Dirie

  Century, Humans, Breach

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• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Country, Moving

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• I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

  Azar Nafisi

  Imagination, Bills, Fantasy

  Azar Nafisi (2015). “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, p.337, Penguin UK

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• Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Citizens, Usurpers, Resistance

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Country, Party, People

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• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  Wolfe Tone

  Brother, Children, Men

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• Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

  Laurence Tribe

  Real, Believe, Character

  "Supreme Court in a no-win position on Obamacare?" By David Gergen, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Religious, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Movie, Aggravation, Decline

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