Carl Sagan Quotes, Rights Quotes, Mind Quotes

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

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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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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

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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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no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

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The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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

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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

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It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.

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

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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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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

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When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

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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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