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“During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.”

People America Black Struggle Saws Rights Century Competition Black People Womens Rights 19th Century Rights In America

Author:Karen DeCrow

“There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.”

Perfect Rights Europe Denied Ireland

Book:James Connolly: Selected Writings

Source: James Connolly: Selected Writings

“There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.”

People Want Stills Ends Liberty Issues Rights Gay Humanitarian Pursuit Civil Rights The End Of The Day Love Life Hospitals Spouse

Author:Brandi Carlile

“My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

States Mother Causes Term Common Issues Rights Members League Voters Parenthood Womens Rights Founding Lifelong Indiana Planned Parenthood

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.”

People World War Country Today Community Forget Study Rights Citizens Terrible Projects Granted War Of The Worlds Second World War

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.”

Would Be Rights Aspect Foundation Democratic Civil Rights Voting Daily Life Right To Vote Democratic Society Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act Civil Rights Act Of 1964

Author:Aberjhani

“People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.”

People Kind Ideas Rights Comfortable Absolutes Scales Instance Enjoyed Officials Hypocrisy Numb

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.”

Political Individual Numbers Rights Groups Citizens Mass Increase Proportion Rulers Monopoly Political Rights

Author:Paul Lafargue

“The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.”

Humans States Rights Human Rights Enjoyed Expenses Permit States Rights

Author:George W. Romney

“I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights -- if need be -- with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Needs States Justice United Liberty United States Rights Admirable

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.”

Needs Strong Rights Intellectual Property Believer Protected Property Rights Intellectual Property

Author:Jim Oberweis

“People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.”

People Pain Together Sex Rights Eating Adults Concern Involving Sex Love Croissants

Author:Rob Delaney

“Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.”

Years Interest Rights Generations Produce Authority Police Threatened New Generation Swedish Lukewarm Legal Rights

Author:Steig Larsson

“From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.”

Book Chance Rights Fairs Hollywood Sells Vanity Articles Vanity Fair

Author:Bryan Burrough

“When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.”

People Should Company Rights Land Citizens Gains Profit Seeking Propose

Author:Louis Bacon

“It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.”

Want Persons Rights College Degrees Educated College Degree

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.”

Humans Doe Rights Abuse Human Rights Commit Psychiatry

Author:Thomas Szasz

“All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!”

Men Dream Destiny Rights Mankind Duty Equal Responsible Rights And Duties

Author:Leon Bourgeois

“I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.”

Individual Given Rights Capitalism Corporations Supporter Ardent

Author:Gary Hamel

“Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.”

Fighting Rights Unity

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.”

People Government Nations Loses Liberty Rights Paper Criminals Civil Rights Jail Procedures Goodwill

Author:Ayn Rand

“The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.”

Should Rights Movement Civil Rights Thank God Bulls Abraham Civil Rights Movement

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.”

Humans Animal Rights Slavery Human Rights Animal Rights Veganism

Author:Gary L. Francione

“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.”

Thinking World Feels Should Reality Suffering Courses Rights This World Students Judging Concepts Contact Perceive Solidarity Oppressed Formation Disadvantaged

Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach

“Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.”

People Democracy Rights

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.”

Giving Should Home Rights Ireland Reserves Motion Pictures Home Rule

Author:Will Rogers

“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.”

Country America Certain Liberty Principles Rights Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Inalienable Rights Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Rights To Life

Author:Charles Rangel

“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.”

Humans Order Existence Rights Human Rights Deny Basic Human Rights

Author:Aung San

“Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude”

Humans Made Choices Democracy Rights Danger Standing Decided Safety Human Rights Conviction Servitude Our Choices Burma Basic Human Rights

Author:Aung San

“The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.”

Might Passion Father Common Rights Rational Worried Impulse Founding

Author:David Harsanyi

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.”

Humans Whole Hands Politics Power Records Rights Written Mankind Human Nature Sacred Divinity Volume Sunbeams

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.”

Needs Humans Reality Girl Opportunity Pay Rights Equal Human Rights Womens Rights Equal Opportunity Equal Pay

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.”

Men Giving Stills Might Political Social Rights Taste Capacity Spheres

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.”

Long Government Names Rights Drug Competition Marketing Brands Grants Exclusive Brand Names

Author:Marcia Angell

“Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.”

“The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them”

People Philosophy Values Company Rights Value Systems

Author:Edgar Schein

“As a citizen, you have an obligation to the countrys tax system, but you also have an obligation to yourself to know your rights under the law and possible tax deductions -- and to claim every one of them.”

Knows Law Rights Citizens Taxes Claims Obligation Deductions Tax System

Author:Donald Alexander

“Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.”

Culture Common Rights Media Protect Profit Corporate Monopoly Copyright Wholesale Privatization Common Culture

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.”

Whole Rights Citizens Crucial Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Rights And Freedoms Emanate

Author:Basmah bint Saud

“For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.”

Years Firsts Persons Nations United Rights Citizens Speech Court Defined Corporate Corporations Amendments Free Speech Ruling First Amendment Takeovers Citizens United

Author:John Bonifaz

“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”

Humans Said Philosophy Whole Fear Rights Human Rights

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!”

Lasts Rights Words Of Wisdom Beats Dear Awful Dull Bless God Bless Chaps God Bless You

Book:all the year round

Source: all the year round

“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.”

“Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights.”

Sex Rights Gay Equal Privilege Equal Rights

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.”

Thinking Mean Known Support Rights Citizens Worthy Favors Inherent

Author:Pope Gregory XVI

“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.”

“Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.”

Rights Ready Civil Rights

Book:Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Source: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

“Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.”

Humans Rights Century Threat Climate Climate Change Human Rights 21st Century

Author:Mary Robinson

“When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.”

Thinking Should Rights Republican Vote Democrat Protection Voting Voters Fraud Crowded Right To Vote Polling Voter Fraud

Author:Christine Pelosi

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