Quotes with civil-rights

Quotes 181 till 200 of 274.

  • Calvin Coolidge The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bell Hooks The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Junius The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Albert Einstein The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Georges Bernanos The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Anthony Minghella The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Antony Jay The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Sir William Blackstone The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • Betty Buckley The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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