Quotes 121 till 140 of 274.
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
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It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
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Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
Source: Works of Abraham Lincoln (2010 edition) -
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
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Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 197 -
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
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Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''
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My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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