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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in… — Oscar Wilde
If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights. — Stuart Briscoe
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights... — Aziz Ansari
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used… — Herbert Hoover
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or… — Margaret Atwood
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own. — John Jay Chapman
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...… — Frank I. Cobb
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and… — John Dickinson
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History… — Felix Frankfurter
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart… — Carl Sagan
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis

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