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I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Hope
Rights
Champion
Human Rights
Shall
Looked
Protect
Always
Up
Human
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
B. F. Skinner
You
Rights
Insist
Down
Society
Structure
Individual
Individual Rights
Falls
Then
Whole
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge
Nature
Rights
Natural
Speak
Protection
Challenge
Men
Recognized
Corresponding
Laws
Until
Were
Existed
Any
Established
Where
Declaration
Natural Rights
Body
Show
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz
You
Rights
Equality
Dangerous
Own
Our
Striking
Neighbor
Highest
Identity
Without
Springs
Blow
Cannot
Subvert
Interests
Your
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
Charles B. Rangel
Freedom
Rights
Freedom Of Speech
Think
Our
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Never
Never Forget
Issue
Affects
Very
Privileges
Forget
American
Sensitive
Should
Speech
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
George B. McClellan
Respect
Rights
Will
Military
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Permit
As Far As
Far
Necessity
Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.
George Michael
Rights
People
World
Better
Doctors
Human Rights
Nurses
Better Place
Days
Make
Human
Anybody
Place
Teachers
Fights
Who
Deserve
Credit
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak
You
Rights
Youth
Law
Will
Before
Vain
Our
Hesitate
Punish
Those
Punishment
Telling
Charge
Responsible
Would
Martyrs
Like
Am
Go
Blood
Affirm
Hold
Anything
Fiercely
Who
Injured
Violated
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
Laura Wasser
You
Rights
Law
Lawyer
Looking
Responsibilities
Seeking
Advisor
Advocate
Expert
Your
Strategist
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Government
Rights
People
Liberty
Free
Power
Control
Other
Side
Must
Vital
Participate
Armed
Powers
Does
Exist
Where
Cannot
Which
Them
Who
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Property
Rights
Men
Before
Whatever
Other
Conspiring
Had
Individuals
Over
Self-Evident
Calling
Any
Which
Acquire
Themselves
Number
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
Lysander Spooner
Saying
Rights
Ought
Please
Rule
Say
Minorities
Except
Allow
Equivalent
Them
Right
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
Truth
Government
Religion
Rights
Truth Is
People
Mind
Free
Christian
Evident
Secure
Must
More
Free People
Privileges
Than
Intended
Any
Christian Religion
Basis
The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
Robert Kennedy
Vote
Rights
Easiest
Grant
Right
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
Religion
Rights
Human Rights
Every
Component
Civilization
Human
Standard
Universal
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle
Good
Rights
Own
Others
High
Insists
Rather
Only
Remembers
Than
Gracefully
Breeding
Good Breeding
Differs
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan
Respect
Rights
Will
Own
Others
Anglo-Saxon
Civilization
Individual
Protect
Him
His
American
Taught
Teach
During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Rights
Strong
Black
Uncle
Past
White
Human Rights
Liberals
Civil
Eat
Civil Rights
Instead
Like
Were
Years
Aunt
Frightened
Human
Afraid
Children
Breasts
Meat
Sucked
Milk
Toms
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Ban Ki-moon
Rights
Internet
National
Aggressive
Human Rights
Programmes
Too
Criminal
States
Security
Some
Disturbed
Laws
More
Exceptional
Freedoms
Abuse
Safeguard
Concerned
Understand
Access
Becoming
How
Am
Surveillance
National Security
May
Human
Justify
Use
Reason
Activity
Fundamental
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
Bella Abzug
Rights
Women
Girl
Diversity
Human Rights
Range
Detailing
All Women
Prevent
Exists
Women And Girls
Affirming
Human
Acknowledging
Full
Actions
Violence
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Bernie Sanders
Political Campaign
Rights
Money
Political
First
Spend
Corporation
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Without
Disclosure
Does
Campaign
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Person
As Much Money
Wants
Much
View
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Carol Bellamy
Rights
Dignity
Practice
Other
Respecting
Ourselves
Without
Discrimination
Us
Each
Treating
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
Caroline Kennedy
Service
Justice
Peace
Rights
Generation
People
Space
Father
Country
Everything
Corps
Civil
Civil Rights
Join
Inspired
He
Feel
Economy
Involved
Greatest
Go
Legacy
Get
Transformed
Public
Social
Really
Social Justice
Communities
Peace Corps
Public Service
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.
Charles B. Rangel
Happiness
Life
Great
Rights
Liberty
Country
Every
Those
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Make
Principle
America
Endowed
Inalienable
Us
Certain
Each
Founded
Belong
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier
Rights
Women
Equality
Progress
Principle
Social
Social Progress
Basic
Extension
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.
Coretta Scott King
Future
Democracy
Rights
Voting
Important
States
Vitally
Voting Rights
Still
Act
United
United States
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