1,033 Quotes About Rights

  • Author Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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    Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations.

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  • Author Michael Anti
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    Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

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  • Author Philip Alston
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    The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

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  • Author Rick Allen
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    My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

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  • Author Samuel Alito
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    Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

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  • Author Carol Bellamy
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    And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

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