- Exploration
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- 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
- First Amendment
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
- Framers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
- Homeland
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
- Property
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020