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• Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

  Andy Rooney

  Speak, Equal, American Woman

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• My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Years, Lasts

  "Joely Richardson: the 'lies' about my family in new book" by Joely Richardson, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2011.

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• You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

  Elton John

  People, Married, Partnership

  "Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong" by Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 12, 2008.

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• I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

  Elton John

  Gay, Thinking, Should Have

  "Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong". usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 12, 2008.

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• You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

  Sally Field

  Issues, Helping, Feels

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• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  James Earl Jones

  New York, Army, Black

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gay, Support, Republican

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• This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Voting, Childhood, Challenges

  "Settled Law is on Side of Health Reform" by Stephanie Cutter, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 03, 2010.

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Self, People

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• URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  New York, Expression, Cities

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2534, Delphi Classics

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• In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Impact, Sweatshops, Movement

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• In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

  Thomas Gumbleton

  Struggle, Impact, Organization

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• The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie Lee Gifford line of clothing for Wal-Mart.... The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... has been a leader in exposing sweatshops, mounting corporate campaigns, and fighting for the rights of vulnerable workers.

  Charles Derber

  New York, Fighting, Impact

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• The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

  Ralph Nader

  Impact, Names, Addresses

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• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

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• Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two Nations, History, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

  Brian Cox

  Fun, Religion, Opinion

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• A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Religious, Atheist, Children

  "Why do Americans still dislike atheists?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Women, Struggle, Writing

  "Men Explain Things to Me". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Expression, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.

  Niall Ferguson

  Country, Years, Law

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• Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Law, Liberty

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• If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Secure, Ifs

  Letter to James Madison, 15 Mar. 1789

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• But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Pitfalls, Unqualified

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• There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

  George Washington

  Law, Trials, Bills

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.357

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