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we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure… — Amartya Sen
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life… — Moby
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon… — Helen Keller
I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake, one-bounce layup; and… — Jim Harrick
The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively. — Rick Pitino
The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most… — Ban Ki-moon
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception. — Ashley Montagu
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course… — Douglas MacArthur
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post.… — Thomas Holcomb
With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself. — Joe Gold
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been… — Andrew Weil
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work… — Steve Almond
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff. — Angelina Jolie
There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing… — John Updike
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it… — Hunter S. Thompson
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. — Barack Obama
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez

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