#rights

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#form #government #mankind #only #open

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#beginning #black #came #certain #civil

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#civil #civil rights #communist #even #had

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#being #casually #everything #feelings #human

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution 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. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#certain #closer #constitution #country #created