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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
I wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.
I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.