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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
Robert E. Lee
Day
Rights
People
Seen
Feelings
Bitter
Seeking
Never
Toward
Because
Dearest
Cherished
Pray
Pray For
Were
South
North
Did
Against
Them
Fought
Believed
Vindictive
In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.
Todd Young
Rights
Election
Every
Freedoms
Ballot
Interests
Your
Each
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai
Myself
Peace
Rights
Dignity
Equality
Speak
Opportunity
Live
Those
Voice
Without
Educated
Who
Fought
Right
Treated
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.
Robert Kennedy
Rights
Word
Honor
Citizen
Seen
Responsibilities
Citizenship
More
Put
Emphasis
Since
Days
Greece
Than
Often
Rome
Title
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
Rights
Meek
Earth
Mineral
Shall
Inherit
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks
Freedom
Justice
Rights
Law
Denial
Others
Rule
Rule Of Law
System
Secured
Some
True
True Freedom
Judicial
Judicial System
Which
Requires
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
Truth
Justice
Struggle
Rights
Impossible
Air
Civil
Civil Rights
Blacks
Fair
Like
Fair Play
Equal
Equal Rights
Because
Without
None
Us
Whites
Including
Play
I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.
Robert Mueller
Terrorism
History
Rights
Will
Wish
All Americans
Liberties
Must
Civil
Civil Liberties
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Only
Exceptionally
Know
Protect
Well
Judged
How
American
Us
Who
Even
Things
Disrupt
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson
Love
Great
Rights
People
Liberty
Mechanic
Men
Country
Nothing
Bone
States
Laws
Equal
Equal Rights
Laborer
Form
Body
Farmer
Planter
Who
United
United States
Desire
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton
Government
You
Rights
Strong
Will
Neutrality
Unless
Respectable
Must
Invade
Observe
Maintain
Foreigners
Tranquillity
Your
Even
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
Government
Religion
Democracy
Rights
Natural
Equality
Pure
First
Human Rights
Christian
Cornerstone
Earth
Lawful
Generous
Least
Human
Mankind
Theory
Element
Foundation
Founded
Christian Religion
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
Ellen DeGeneres
Rights
Animal
Political
Compassion
Care
Human Rights
About
Animal Rights
Look
Equal
Equal Rights
Passionately
Person
Human
Controversy
Activist
I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
Judy Garland
Life
Daily
You
Rights
People
Believe
Other
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Take
Without
Real
Surroundings
Contribute
Pattern
Your
Shown
Beliefs
Expression
Away
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rights
Women
Battle
Long
Individual
Countenance
Individual Rights
Long-Standing
None
Anything
Which
Us
Should
Standing
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
Haile Selassie
Truth
Man
Justice
Peace
Rights
Courage
Speak
Morality
Shall
Freedoms
Least
Go
Die
Eternal
Transgression
Eternal Vigilance
Require
Act
Vigilance
International
Suffer
Basic
Necessary
Guaranteeing
Preservation
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
Randi Weingarten
Rights
Safety
Debate
Gun
First
Own
Other
Sides
Recognition
Responsibilities
Guns
Both
No Reason
Both Sides
Support
First Amendment
Mass
Come
Like
Likelihood
Protect
Sport
Policies
Limitations
Reduce
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Legally
Reason
Right
Second
Second Amendment
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
War
Government
Rights
Secret
Only
Open
Form
Which
Republican
Eternally
Mankind
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold
Freedom
Rights
Fear
Human Rights
Sum
Philosophy
Could
Freedom From
Said
Up
Human
Whole
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette
Government
Rights
People
Sacred
Most
For The People
Insurrection
Duties
Each
Portion
Violates
When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.
Jorge Ramos
You
Rights
Corruption
Racism
Responsibility
Power
Journalist
Human Rights
Think
Our
Those
Lies
Take
Abuse
Because
Discrimination
Dictatorships
Reporter
Human
Public
Confront
Stand
Who
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran
Beautiful
Rights
Human Being
Others
Noble
Most
Safeguarding
End
Human
Being
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.
Robert Mugabe
Respect
Rights
Cause
Will
Human Rights
Other
Worldwide
Advance
Human
Confrontation
Double
Standards
Each
Cooperation
As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
Elizabeth Esty
Day
Rights
Celebrate
Women
Strong
Labor Day
Honor
Men
Men And Women
Our
Critical
Force
Labor
Tirelessly
Which
Successful
Workers
Who
Fought
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
Kay Granger
Life
Rights
Liberty
Entitled
Few
Human Rights
Those
Definition
Shadows
Dawn
Privilege
Dusk
Human
Granted
Include
Humans
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
Rights
Invent
Sense
Human Rights
Invented
Real
Very
America
Did
Human
Real Sense
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo
Truth
Nature
Rights
Mother
Free
Free Speech
Human Nature
Human Rights
Free Expression
Suppress
Insult
Stifle
Human
Root
Base
Expression
Speech
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