Quotes on human rights
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu Quotes
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
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Edwin Markham Quotes
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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Robert Frost Quotes
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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Will Rogers Quotes
Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
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Walt Whitman Quotes
No man is above the law and no man below it.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Barry Goldwater Quotes
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
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Howard Mumford Jones Quotes
You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.
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Lyn Beth Neylon Quotes
Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
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Roger Baldwin Quotes
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Carl T. Rowan Quotes
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
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Justice William J. Brennan Quotes
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Horace Greeley Quotes