Quotes 121 till 140 of 222.
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Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced.
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Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Letter to the Earl of Donoughmore, 22-5-1838 -
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966) -
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
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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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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.
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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.
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Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
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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.
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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.
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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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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
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The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
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