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• It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  President, Individual, Guarded

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• The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

  George Washington

  Ignorance, Age, President

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.112

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• Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.108, tredition

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Class, Long

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• It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

  Arthur Goldberg

  War, Temptation, Requirements

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• If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

  Bill Delahunt

  Uzbekistan, Decision, Democracy

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• ...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Punishment, Names, Ideas

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• In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Men, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1832). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.587

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• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  Abbie Cornish

  Animal, Voice, People

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• The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, White, House

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• . . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

  David Henry Hwang

  Issues, Goal, Decision

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• John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

  David Wong

  Clouds, Blue, Soul

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Crazy, Soul

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• There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

  Tommy Rettig

  Dog, Brother, One Day

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• Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights

  Sharan Burrow

  Country, Jobs, People

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• The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Russia, Space, Olympics

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• What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

  Willa Gibbs

  Two, Decision, Sometimes

  Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”

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• I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong Women, Mean, Opportunity

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

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• So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Night

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• Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Evo Morales

  Israel, Principles, Doe

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• The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Political, Important, Firsts

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• I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Remember, Activist

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• When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.

  Dick Cheney

  Reading, People, Worry

  www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Animal, Interest

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• The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Government, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.3, Hackett Publishing

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