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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its...

—Frederick Douglass

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Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

—Anthony Liccione

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

—Andrew Jackson

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A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

—Unknown Author

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Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not...

—Isaiah Berlin

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You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

—Gary L.

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What is the use of discussing a man’s abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in...

—Edmund Burke

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A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power...

—Nick Harkaway

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By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

—Karen Armstrong

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I’m tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks

—Stanley Victor

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Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor….I, in a way, don’t like to...

—Ron Paul

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With my human rights advocacy, that’s always been through my writing. I’ve always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals – about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights....

—Randa Abdel-Fattah

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Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition...

—Anthony Burgess

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Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.

—Amit Ray

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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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You’re under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

—Derek Landy

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Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don’t give up on your right to, and sense of,...

—Jay Woodman

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I’ve often observed that women can be the weakest link in women’s rights.

—Jean Sasson

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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...

—Joan Halifax

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I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women’s rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

—Kavita Ramdas

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The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds,...

—Simone Weil

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You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

—Terence McKenna

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I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and child.It is a question of justice, of mercy, of honesty, of...

—Robert G.

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Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

—Bianca Jagger

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Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It’s the – the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s...

—Benjamin Netanyahu

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an...

—George Bernard

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Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

—Gary L.

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You have no right to be silenced.

—James DeVita

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We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not – nor will we ever – monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights...

—Janet Napolitano

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Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

—Marcia Angell

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Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the...

—Rudolf Rocker

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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

—Thucydides

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And Pride? There is absolutely no pride in being used and cast aside every twelve-weeks for someone equally replaceable. Do you see pride on the faces of people on Workplace? I don’t. I see worry,...

—Paul Howsley

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This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world. A vote is a voice. I think you underestimate yourself, Queenie. This is your...

—Sharon Biggs

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But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.”In fact,’ said Mustapha Mond, ‘you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’...

—Aldous Huxley

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I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

—Alvin A. Bullock

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Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.

—Ellen J.

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All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

—Gary L.

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Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.

—Jack R.

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What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don’t accept, humanism says what I do.” – Nathan Phelps

—Nathan Phelps

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My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

—Joe Biden

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The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.

—Steven Redhead

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The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.

—Ron Pearce

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I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online...

—Sara Sheridan

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Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.

—Ahmed Zewail

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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women’s rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have...

—Camille Paglia

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I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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It’s illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to take someone’s liberty, unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to kill someone, unless you’re the government. Private organizations can do...

—J.S.B. Morse

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America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. If you don’t live up to...

—Glenn Beck

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The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn’t give them the minimum of their rights.

—Hassan Nasrallah

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