Quotes with rights

Quotes 141 till 160 of 222.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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