"Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights."
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"The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right."
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"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
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"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
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"Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won."
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"Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live."
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"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
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"No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit."
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"Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money."
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"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
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"Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself."
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"Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights."
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"Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties."
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"The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do."
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"The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights."
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"We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights."
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"We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary."
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"If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans."
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"This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story."
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"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
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