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> [The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/park-won-soon/the-access-to-clean-air-and-clean-water-is-a-basic-right/)

[Park Won-soon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/park-won-soon/)

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> [It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-roosevelt/it-seems-to-me-that-it-is-the-basic-right-of-any-human-being-to-work/)

[Eleanor Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-roosevelt/)

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> [Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carper/clean-air-is-a-basic-right-the-responsibility-to-ensure-that-falls-to/)

[Thomas Carper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carper/)

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> [Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nydia-velazquez/fair-and-affordable-housing-is-a-basic-right-for-all-new-yorkers-and/)

[Nydia Velazquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nydia-velazquez/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/nydia-velazquez-37348_affordable_fair-and-affordable-housing-is-a-basic-r_3216642.png)

> [On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/on-this-basic-being-right-and-doing-right-the-whole-world-can-unite/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/it-is-our-basic-right-to-be-a-happy-person-happy-family-and/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/this-right-to-vote-is-the-basic-right-without-which-all-others-are/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

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> [Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-auster/once-the-government-becomes-the-supplier-of-people-s-needs-there-is/)

[Lawrence Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-auster/)

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> [Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/medical-care-for-the-entire-country-seems-to-me-a-basic-right-if/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

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> [I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-biden/i-believe-health-care-is-a-basic-right-if-education-you-re-entitled/)

[Joe Biden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-biden/)

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> [I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-m-going-to-live-long-enough-to-live-in-an-america-that-will-assume/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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