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Stephen King Author
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"If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them"

Fighting Rights Should Have
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests."

Mean Goal Rights
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)"

Believe Past Rights
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything."

War Funny Rights
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right."

Talking Practice Rights
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Ryan North Cartoonist, Author
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"I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to."

Rights Creative
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Rand Paul Politician
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"I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights."

War Rights Independence
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Rand Paul Politician
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"People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here."

Country Rights Should Have
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Samuel Philosopher
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"I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens."

People Mean Rights
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Octavia Spencer Actress, Producer
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"Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in."

Rights Parent Generations
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Octavia Spencer Actress, Producer
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"The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown."

Thinking Rights Gay
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"A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology."

Men War Rights
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives."

Thinking Rights Love Life
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"If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution."

Children Rights Offering
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