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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
- Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020