Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Rights Quotes, Order Quotes

One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

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The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

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The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005

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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

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The true source of rights is duty.

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

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I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.

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I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

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All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

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