Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Rights Quotes

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

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No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

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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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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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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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No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.

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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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In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

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Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

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

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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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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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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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Putting the World to Rights

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