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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
I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.
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- Nov 07, 2020