- Law
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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
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past there has been debate as to whether or not traditional rights such as that to trial by jury might be protected or if a Bill of Rights should extend into areas of social and economic policy.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.
- Air
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.
- Personally
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take gun rights very personally.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020