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• Once you give up rights, they’re not going to give them back.

  Aaron McGruder

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• Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

  Rohinton Mistry

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  Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Rohn

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• There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

  Daniel Pauly

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• Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.

  M.F. Moonzajer

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• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  Joan Halifax

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• Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

  William Hague

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• Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

  Bradley A. Smith

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• The rights u take for granted are only valid if u fight to give those same rights to others.

  Russell Simmons

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• The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

  Alexander Hamilton

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

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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.

  Suzanne La Follette

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• Freedom is the right to choose the habits which bind you.

  Renate Rubinstein

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• A paradise that you cannot leave is hell.

  Armando Fuentes Aguirre

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• As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself-as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

  Walt Whitman

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• 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 Jr

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

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• “Freedom from fear” could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

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• A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

  Ramsey Clark

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• The buck stops here.

  Harry S. Truman

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