Quotes with rights

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  • Ban Ki-moon All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Auberon Herbert And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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  • Ayn Rand Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
    The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Arthur Henderson As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • James Madison As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Buchi Emecheta As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Armstrong Williams At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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