Quotes with civil-rights

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  • Anthony Trollope Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Roger Sherman Baldwin So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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  • John Dryden So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bono So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Anna Lindh Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bayard Rustin The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Sharon Anthony Bower The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
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  • Margaret Thatcher The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Antonin Scalia The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Emma Goldman The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Angelina Grimké The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Adrian Cronauer The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Helene Deutsch The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Bernie Sanders The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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