#rights

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#danger #doing #door #increasing #keyhole

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

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The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

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And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. ↗

— Julian Castro

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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

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When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Margaret Cho

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#along #been #decent #evolution #freedom

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings. ↗

— Julian Bond

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