Rights Quotes - Page 4

• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

  Julian Bond

  Education, Children, School

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• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Freedom, Block, Home

  "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.

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• Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

  Jeff Corwin

  Fear, Believe, Fate

  Jeff Corwin (2009). “100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species”, p.15, Rodale

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• Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 15, 2015

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• As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

  Piri Thomas

  Fear, Struggle, Communication

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• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

  Loretta Lynch

  Freedom, Responsibility, Power

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• Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Freedom, Creativity

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• Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

  Michael Manley

  Believe, Mean, Years

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• There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

  Waylon Jennings

  Trying, Singers, Way

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Freedom, Father, War

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• If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Funny, Children, Years

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.95, Transaction Publishers

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• It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

  Lucy Burns

  Freedom, Women, Government

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Equality, Political

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• Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

  Jozef Pilsudski

  Respect, Future, Past

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• There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.58, Discovery House

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• No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Native American

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Food, Health

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• Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.

  Roger Casement

  Love, Flower, Government

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• When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Money, Jobs

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• Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

  Fred Kent

  Life, Greatness, Important

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• I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

  Barack Obama

  Acceptance, People, African American

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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