Rights Quotes - Page 9

• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Struggle, Law

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• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Issues, Fruit, Social

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Government, Ideas, Issues

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• You can't have occupation and human rights.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Occupation, Human Rights, Humans

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• Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Crush, Strong, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

  Thomas Sankara

  Opportunity, People, Missing

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

  Napoleon Hill

  Development, Want, Interfere

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.89, Penguin

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• All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

  George Mason

  Mean, Independent, Equality

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• Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Goal

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.314, Penguin

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• It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Self, Numbers

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.

  Ron Paul

  People, Able, Vote

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• The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Firsts, Ada, Bills

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• Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Earth, Born, Given

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• The Children's Hospital will be a credible demonstration of the commitment of African leaders to place the rights of children at the forefront. Nothing less would be enough.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Commitment, Leader

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• In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

  Philip Schuyler

  Police, Referencing, States

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• Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

  Ayn Rand

  Military, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.216, Penguin

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• When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Care, Way

  "Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid Of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook And Google" by Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com. October 11, 2014.

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• When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Cheer, Erosion

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• We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

  John Diefenbaker

  Borders, Maintenance, Heritage

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• In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

  Mick Dodson

  Heart, Mean, Ideas

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• Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

  Nathaniel Branden

  Thinking, Judging, Political

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• Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Peaceful

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Individualism, Refusal

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.406, Penguin

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• America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

  Alex Epstein

  Pursuit Of Happiness, America, Independence

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• There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Abuse, Atrocities

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