Rights Quotes - Page 15

• The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

  Jiang Zemin

  Believe, Science, Political

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• Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

  Paul Robeson

  Sports, Art, Struggle

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Essentials, Use

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• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  John Trumbull

  Trust, Ties, Nurse

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  Clara Zetkin

  Spiritual, Women, Profound

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• Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

  Marcia Wallace

  Women, Hero, Long

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• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Important, United States

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• PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.

  Jack Tretton

  Playing Games, Gamer, Good Things

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• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  Tammy Bruce

  Pride, Gay, Enough

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.87, Crown Forum

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• I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

  Joseph McCabe

  Years, Two, Feminist

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Growing Up, War, Fate

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• I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer just loves it!

  Debby Ryan

  Christmas, Animal, Media

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• Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

  Mel White

  Gay, Democracy, Notable

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• Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.

  Mel White

  Years, Faithful, Twenties

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• Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

  James Bovard

  Two Sides, Doe, Care

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

  Vito Fossella

  Moving, Ukraine, Goal

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• Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Years, People

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• No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

  Tammy Bruce

  Power, Equality, Noble

  Tammy Bruce (2010). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, p.58, Crown

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• All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Equality, Men, Equal Rights

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403

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• In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

  Mark Skousen

  Long, Society, Individual

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

  Westbrook Pegler

  America, Long, Intellectual

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• We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, America, Profound

  John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

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• America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Passion, Greatness, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Giving, President

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