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When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
Bruce Hornsby
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Bruce Hornsby
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Musician
Born:
Nov 23
,
1954
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Liberty
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Men
Pursuit
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
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Liberty
Law
Will
Action
Add
Others
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Tyrant
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Drawn
Individual
Equal
Equal Rights
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Within
Around
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According
Often
Us
Violates
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama
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Freedom
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Charity
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Others
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Destinies
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Recognize
Responsibilities
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Bound
Ideals
Well
Without
Unworthy
Died
Which
Ask
Who
Founding
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
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Humanity
People
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Very
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Human
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
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People
Mother
Earth
All People
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Should
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
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Oppression
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers
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True
Until
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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
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Rights
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Just
Refuse
Against
Should
Bill
Bill Of Rights
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
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Earth
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