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“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.”

World Seems Might Political Party Cases Rights Blood Share Revolution Fortune Violent Curious Enjoyed Ashamed Denied Delicate Trifles Political Life Political Rights

Author:Alice Meynell

“Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.”

Law Political Social Rights Economic Killing Enjoyed Mutual Rule Of Law Poisoning

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.”

Rights Civil Rights Enjoyed Civilized

Author:Rupert Friend

“Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.”

Years Enjoy Rights Husband Medicine Divorce Ships Enjoyed Ran Egypt Unprecedented Lawsuit Vineyards After Divorce

Author:Stacy Schiff

“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

“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

“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.”

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799