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"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." »Ayn Rand
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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." »Clarence Thomas
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"The whole of the Bill of rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." »Albert Gallatin
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar" »Thomas Jefferson
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"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
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"The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million." »Eugene V. Debs
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"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights." »Ronald Reagan
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"Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less." »Susan B. Anthony
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death." »Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Don't let anyone tell you that you don't have rights, because no one has the right to say that." »Roman Lalich
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"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights." »John Wooden
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"Equal rights were created for everyone." »contesant in 1990 Mr. New Jersey Male pageant
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"Property has its duties as well as its rights." »Thomas Brummond
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"Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%." »Thomas Jefferson
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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Atheism has no room for human rights." »U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin
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"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others." »Ren G. Torres
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights." »J. Paul Getty
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"It is regrettable that, among the rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten." »Charles Baudelaire
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"Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny." »Paul Walter
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"I favor the Civil rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary." »Ronald Reagan
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"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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