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• Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Wish, Groups, Guarded

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• Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

  Rob Brezsny

  Needs, Tests, Information

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.23, Frog Books

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• Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

  John F. Kennedy

  Force, Nations, Armed Forces Day

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• It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs

  Ian Harris

  Belief, Individual, Humans

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• Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates.

  Robert Higgs

  Leader, Political, Ambitious

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• The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

  Andrew Young

  Mother, Hero, Wife

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• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  Bryan Adams

  Rip, Inspiration, World

  FaceBook post by Bryan Adams from Dec 06, 2013

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• George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award.

  Tina Fey

  Husband, War, Years

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's best jokes from the 2015 Golden Globes". www.independent.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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• The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

  Desmond Tutu

  Challenges, Earth, Environment

  "Facing One of the Greatest Human Rights Challenges of Our Time" by Jackie Jenkins-Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, People, Safe

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• We don't have rights until we claim them.

  Richard Bach

  Claims

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  Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

  Angela Davis

  Justice, Civil Rights, Indivisible

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• Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, God And Nature

  Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. August 23, 2012.

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• It takes no compromise to give people their rights

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, People, Giving

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• Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

  Leighton Meester

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  Fawn Hall

  Thinking, House, Citizens

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• Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Boys, Today Is The Day

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Urbanization

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Ridiculous

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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• Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
  necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Art, Merit

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• It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, People, Cases

  "David Bianculli's Top 10 TV Shows Of 2008". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 23, 2008.

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• As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized...
  I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote.
  I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom.
  I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

  Common

  Kids, Caring, Hands

  "72nd Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Silence, Faces, Injustice

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• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Bills, Troops, Citizens

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.254, Knopf

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• I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Liberty

  Cnn National Security Debate, archives.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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