"The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest."
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"No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties."
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"If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek."
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"Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights."
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"Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong."
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"I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way."
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"Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others."
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"It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others."
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"Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that."
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"All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition."
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"I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation."
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"Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also."
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"I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation."
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"They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!"
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"Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women."
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"In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen."
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"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
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"When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted."
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"As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time."
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"I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract."
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