- Nov 07, 2020
Rights Quotes
On dignity, ownership, and rights still being won.
These rights quotes cover real ground — a genuinely good year for transgender rights, contested ownership of a trademark, and quiet discomfort with titles like 'human rights defender' even when earned. The collection sits alongside Human quotes on shared dignity and protection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Voting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voting rights are constitutional rights.
- Nov 07, 2020
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
- Divest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
- Public Safety
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020