Al Franken Quotes, Rights Quotes, Government Quotes

The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.

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

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Rights Quotes , Conflict Quotes

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Rights Quotes

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Rights Quotes , Giving Quotes

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Rights Quotes , Law Quotes

I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

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In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always also help; He will show him the way by which he can gain his rights, his freedom, and therefore his future.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Rights Quotes , Atheism Quotes

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

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Tags : Adam Lambert Quotes , Rights Quotes , Leader Quotes

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

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Rights Quotes , Achievement Quotes

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Strong Quotes , Rights Quotes

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Rights Quotes , Perspective Quotes

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Rights Quotes

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Rights Quotes

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Rights Quotes , Ideas Quotes

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

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Rights Quotes

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

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

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Rights Quotes , States Quotes

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Equality Quotes , Rights Quotes

Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

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