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• The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sheep, People, Vision

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days.

  Mark Steyn

  Girl, Block, Party

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• ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Zimbabwe, Groups, Arabia

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• The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

  John C. Dvorak

  Politics, Bills, Journalist

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• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Tolerance, Democracy

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• Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.

  A.C. Grayling

  Liberty, Different, Minorities

  A.C. Grayling (2007). “Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World”, Walker

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• The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Strong, Use, Pillars

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• Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend. The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you. If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Genuine Friends, Benefits

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• Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

  Hun Sen

  Effort, Waiting, Looks

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• The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Tasks, Duty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

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• Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Political Opinions, Government

  Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

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• American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Law, Practice

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• I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

  Frederick Douglass

  Race, Humanity, Knows

  "Our Composite Nationality". Frederick Douglass' Address in Boston, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. December 7, 1869.

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• The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Heart, Exercise, Impact

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• This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

  Hamid Dabashi

  Movement, Revolution, Civil Rights

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• I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.

  Lauren Jauregui

  Cute, Girl, Kissing

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• Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

  Malalai Joya

  Lazy, Easy, Careless

  Malalai Joya (2009). “A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?

  Octavia St. Laurent

  Gay, Men, Animal

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• Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

  Fawzia Koofi

  Sacrifice, Women's Rights

  "Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban" by Aryn Baker, content.time.com. August 9, 2010.

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• A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Practice, America

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, People, Say Anything

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• It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking, Ideas, Poverty

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• Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

  Walter Lippmann

  Suicide, Names, Democracy

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Women, Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.353

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