"You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor."
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"Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all. Personally I lean towards unlimited rights, I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please, BUT! If I do something you don't like I think you have the right to kill me."
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"When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights."
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"Silver rights aren't as dramatic and captivating as civil rights. The movement isn't good TV and it's boring or inaccessible to many people. The forums were created to spread awareness, dialogue, and community to forge new partnerships and ideas."
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"America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice."
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"It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that."
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"Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude"
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"Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things."
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"Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination."
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"Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights."
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"Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit."
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"The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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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"
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"Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone."
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"It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same."
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"If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights"
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"Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human."
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"The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature."
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"That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
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