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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

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Quotes by Ali Khamenei

Nov 07, 2020

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nov 07, 2020

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Quotes by Alfred Marshall

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Nov 07, 2020

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nov 07, 2020

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Quotes by Albert Gallatin

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Nov 07, 2020

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Al Franken

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Nov 07, 2020

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Quotes by Al Franken

Nov 07, 2020

What about the majority? I'm so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?

Quotes by Ainsley Earhardt

Another line calls for building a truly global movement behind women's rights, treating it as unfinished work rather than a settled cause. See Country or Government quotes for related civic themes.

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