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Letter "R" » rights
«I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.»
Author: Alice Paul
(Author, Founder, Lawyer, Social Reformer)
| Keywords:
complicate, complicated, direction, doubted, equal, equality, Equal rights, in ordinary, ordinary, problems, reforming, reforms, rights, There Is Nothing
«Among individuals as among nations, the respect to other people's rights is peace»
Author: Benito Juarez
(President)
| Keywords:
individuals, Individual right, individual rights, in some respects, in that respect, nations, Other People, peace, respect, respect to, rights, that nation
«America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
America, Human rights, invent, invented, rights, the other way around
«Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification»
Author: Malcolm Wallop
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
deny, grant, justification, must not, Not now, rights, U.S. government, using
«I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.»
Author: Paul Newman
(Actor)
| About:
Homosexuality
| Keywords:
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«God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.»
«Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.»
Author: William Greider
| Keywords:
admonition, advocated, advocates, advocating, animal, animals, animal rights, reflected, relate, remind, rights, The Advocate, treat, ways
«A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Right
| Keywords:
disarmed, disarming, disarms, holds, legal, legally, legal right, monopolies, Monopoly, physical, physical force, rights, the threat of, threat, victims
«A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
fight, harder, interests, rights
«A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
claim, derived, free people, Laws, Laws of nature, magistrate, rights, The Gift, the laws of nature
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