Birthright Quotes

• Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Winning, Games

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam" by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, (p. 176), 1999.

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• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Inspiring, Freedom, Party

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.

  Tench Coxe

  Men, Gun, Soldier

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• The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

  Ernest Holmes

  Freedom, Men, Soul

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• I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Shining, Humanity

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

  Mark Batterson

  Destiny, Followers, Want

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.16, Multnomah

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• As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Enemy, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1035, GENERAL PRESS

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• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Thinking, Mind, Body

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• The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

  John Milton

  Kings, People, Derivatives

  John Milton (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton: The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Areopagitica ; Tracts on the Commonwealth ; Observations on Ormond's peace ; Letters of States, etc. ; Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon ; Of Reformation in England ; Of prelatical episcopacy ; /The reason of Church government urged against prelacy of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration ; Of civil power in ecclesiastical causes”, p.11

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• Every child's birthright is a happy home.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Children, Home, Happy Home

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  Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Historical, Empires

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, April 30, 2008.

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• You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.

  Louie Giglio

  Opportunity, Idols, Worship You

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• All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Struggle, Doors

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

  Michael J. Fox

  Children, Wife, My Children

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• Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
  Your sustenance and birthright are.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Military, Honor, Sustenance

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• I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

  Kevin Costner

  Horse, Fighting, Sight

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• While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Gerrard Winstanley (1965). “Works”

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• Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

  Amira Hass

  Throwing Stones, Resistance, Action

  "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.

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• Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.

  Christiane Northrup

  Beautiful, Girl, Grandmother

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  Ella Maillart

  Home, Conquer The World, Long

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• One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

  Mary Pickford

  Loss, Cutting, Men

  Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”

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• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  Nathan Deal

  Country, Israel, Japan

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• They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Blood, Mountain

  James Russell Lowell (1896). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Father, Struggle

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