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title: "10 Rights Issues Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-field/you-can-t-help-but-feel-all-the-human-rights-issues/)

[Sally Field](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-field/)

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> [I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/macklemore/i-think-that-civil-rights-issues-take-a-lot-of-time-to-develop/)

[Macklemore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/macklemore/)

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> [New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark/new-zealand-s-been-pretty-quiet-on-human-rights-issues-which-we-will/)

[Helen Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark/)

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> [Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ari-shapiro/yet-civil-rights-issues-are-very-much-on-the-front-burner-in-south/)

[Ari Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ari-shapiro/)

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> [“Democrats have to continue championing civil rights, human rights, and other issues that are part of our march toward a more perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-rodham-clinton/democrats-have-to-continue-championing-civil-rights-human-rights-and/)

[Hillary Rodham Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-rodham-clinton/)

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> [I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-brownback/i-do-a-number-of-things-working-on-human-rights-issues-prison/)

[Sam Brownback](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-brownback/)

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> [And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-loder/and-so-popular-culture-raises-issues-that-are-very-important-actually/)

[Kurt Loder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-loder/)

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> [There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandi-carlile/there-are-still-civil-rights-issues-there-are-still-people-who-can-t/)

[Brandi Carlile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandi-carlile/)

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> [There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/there-s-no-point-going-to-a-country-which-is-torturing-people-to-ask/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-robinson/i-believe-we-should-try-to-move-away-from-the-vocabulary-and/)

[Mary Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-robinson/)

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