Alan Chambers Quotes, Gay Quotes, Rights Quotes

I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

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

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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

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Rights Quotes , Support Quotes

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

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Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

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

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I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Rights Quotes , Flow Quotes

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Rights Quotes , Liberty 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

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

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This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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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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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Rights Quotes , Political Quotes

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.

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