Rights Quotes

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Hillary Clinton

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.

Ted Deutch

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The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

Jon Johansen

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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

Sam Brownback

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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.

Gerrit Smith

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Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Derrick Bell

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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Rand Paul

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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Georges Bernanos

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When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Christopher Dodd

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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

Ralph Bakshi

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Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.

Eric Holder

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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

P. J. O'Rourke

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The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

Evo Morales

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I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.

Brendan Fraser

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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Orville Redenbacher

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To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Bobby Scott

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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

Nadia Comaneci

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Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Craig Venter

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The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

Antonin Scalia

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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Malcolm Wallop

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