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Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Rights
People
Fighting
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Years
America
Movement
After
Even
Here
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
Ruby Dee
Saying
Rights
Remember
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Join
Never
Like
Well
Going
Movement
Belong
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
Rudy Giuliani
Freedom
You
Peace
Rights
People
Liberty
Live
Other
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Respecting
Ability
Want
Certain
Your
Amount
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
Russell Simmons
You
Rights
Money
Rights Movement
Wrap
Civil
Some
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Step
Know
Well
Around
Hands
Movement
Your
Right
Last
Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.
Ruth Glick
Myself
Me
Rights
Publish
Savvy
Books
Written
New
Like
Most
Another
Were
Option
Want
Unfortunately
Held
Who
Electronic
Publishers
Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
Ruth Rendell
Rights
Women
Important
More
Than
Ethnic
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Rza
History
You
Rights
Oppression
Black
Country
Our
Kind
Black America
Civil
Civil Rights
Entity
Felt
Isolated
America
The History Of
Slavery
Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.
Sadiq Khan
Rights
State
Only
Individual
Individual Rights
Abuse
Protect
Labour
Against
Position
Thousands of people's lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You'd think a very Tory thing to do. Sadly not, under Cameron's leadership.
Sadiq Khan
Leadership
You
Rights
People
Country
Human Rights
Think
State
Thousands
Tory
All-Powerful
Laws
Winning
Individual
Through
Taking
Sadly
Cameron
Very
Improved
Human
Lives
Thing
Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.
Sadiq Khan
Needs
Rights
Human Rights
Court
Accepts
Reform
Labour
Human
European
Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.
Sadiq Khan
Education
Democracy
Rights
Opportunities
Important
Human Rights
Ensuring
Gives
Individual
Crucial
Bounds
Beyond
Effective
Human
Requirement
Even
Basic
I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.
Sadiq Khan
Rights
Black
Lawyer
Human Rights
Had
Been
Discrimination
Human
Victims
Acted
Used
Who
Many
I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
Sam Brownback
Family
Rights
Prison
Human Rights
Recidivism
Rates
Push
Also
Issues
Lot
Human
Social
Then
Worked
Working
Social Issues
Rebuilding
Things
Number
As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
Sam Brownback
War
Democracy
History
Rights
First
Human Rights
Cold
Cold War
Our
Concern
Human
Should
Extension
Preservation
I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
Sam Brownback
Rights
Matters
Human Rights
United Nations
Think
Harmful
Respects
Weak
Out
Has-Been
Carry
Able
Institution
Like
Been
Discuss
Human
Nations
Being
Format
Useful
Many
Many Respects
Even
United
Things
Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Great
Rights
Balance
Women
Reality
Equality
Power
Despite
Statistics
Sexes
Advances
Between
Global
Balance Of Power
Being
Far
Show
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
Samantha Power
Government
Rights
World
Human Rights
Countries
Around
Official
Human
Many
When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
Samira Wiley
You
Rights
World
Progress
Walls
Prison
Inside
Outside
Outside World
Along
Timeline
Same
Any
Just
Translate
Necessarily
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Government
Constitution
Rights
People
Law
Citizen
Thorough
Statesman
Laws
More
Federal
Federal Government
Importance
Affect
Branch
Than
Acquaintance
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
Samuel P. Huntington
Democracy
Rights
Try
Human Rights
Think
Other
Other Countries
States
Direction
Clearly
Countries
Well
Western
Commitments
Move
Human
Nations
Influence
Should
Stand
United
United States
This change for creating a better world will not come from the government or an outside agency; it will have to be internal. We blame the politicians for everything, but if I give equal respect and rights to the women of my family, I have taken the first step forward.
Sangram Singh
Government
Family
Change
Respect
Rights
Blame
Women
World
Better
Will
Better World
First
Politicians
Everything
Give
Outside
Step
Taken
Step Forward
Come
Equal
First Step
Agency
Creating
Internal
Forward
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Home
Rights
Women
People
Writing
Wife
Met
Kids
Directing
He
Between
Most
Equal
Schooling
Equal Rights
Because
His
Want
While
Producing
Acting
Used
Commute
Ever
Alan
Disrupt
Two
Set
I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. That's going to be with me 'till the day I die and beyond. I mean, that's just what it is!
Sara Ramirez
Day
Me
Rights
Community
Support
Beyond
Equal
Equal Rights
Always
Till
Die
Going
Just
Mean
To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.
Sarah Harrison
Government
Me
Rights
Own
Human Rights
Else
Our
Collaborating
Kind
Someone
Data
Attack
Cheap
Know
Years
Any
Human
Being
Storage
Information
Story
Create
Your
Used
Grave
Kept
Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.
Sarah McBride
Rights
Fight
People
Important
Transgender
Bathroom
Facilities
Like
Access
Does
End
Begin
Door
Public
Trump's appointed extremist judges to the federal bench, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, whose decisions demonstrate a judicial philosophy far more concerned with the rights of corporations than marginalized Americans.
Sarah McBride
Justice
Rights
Bench
Philosophy
Corporations
Extremist
Neil
More
Federal
Supreme
Concerned
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Court
Judges
Judicial
Demonstrate
Trump
Than
American
Decisions
Far
Including
Whose
Marginalized
Appointed
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