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• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Richard Stallman

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  Tags in Human, Rights, Correct

• National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

  Richard Perle

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  Tags in Government, Rights, National

• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Richard Perle

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  Tags in American, Rights

• I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

  Carol Moseley Braun

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  Tags in Women, Rights

• We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there’s very little we can do about that.

  Richard Curtis

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  Tags in New, Little, Rights

• And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other’s dignity and rights.

  Carol Bellamy

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  Tags in Rights, Ourselves

• By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

  Carol Bellamy

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  Tags in Rights, Government

• Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

  Carol Bellamy

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  Tags in Situation, Rights

• The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

  Rene Samuel Cassin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Through, Rights

• They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it’s a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.

  Ernst Zündel

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  Tags in Constitutional, Rights, Professional, Approach

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  Calvin Coolidge

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  Tags in Property, Rights

• These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

  Caleb Cushing

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  Tags in Rights

• I’m also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn’t be worked out.

  David Prowse

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  Tags in Rights, Big

• Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don’t like as well as those we do.

  Trevor Phillips

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  Tags in Name, Rights, Human

• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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  Tags in Resist, Rights, Dare

• Mother can’t you see I’ve got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for you but it’s right for me…

  Sarah McLachlan

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  Tags in Rights, Living

• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  Ayn Rand

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Rights, Subordinating, Law

• Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Rights, Man

• Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

  Khalil Gibran

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  Tags in Noble, Rights, Beautiful, Human

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

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  Tags in Rights, Folly