Barack Obama Quotes, Rights Quotes, People Quotes

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

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The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

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Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

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

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If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

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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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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

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

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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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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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

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Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

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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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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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The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

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I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

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

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