"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
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"A human being has no natural rights of any nature."
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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."
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"Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights."
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"In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties."
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"So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable."
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"Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence."
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"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity."
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"The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law."
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"I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs."
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"It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved."
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"There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury."
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"It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights."
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"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
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"My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God."
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"Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance."
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"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights."
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"The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass."
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"If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race."
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"no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any"
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