We Claim Quotes
33 quotes by 30 authors
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
— Frederick Douglass
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all…
— John Dickinson
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Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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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
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free…
— William Faulkner
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn…
— Horace
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is…
— Howard Zinn
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to…
— William James
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We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
— Mort Sahl
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Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled…
— John Stott
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We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view,…
— Michelle Alexander
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Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
— Julia Cameron
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From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
— Henri Nouwen
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We don't have rights until we claim them.
— Richard Bach
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There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch…
— Kurt Busch
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So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own…
— John Gerstner
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It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national…
— Vladimir Lenin
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No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.
— Jim Cymbala
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will…
— Adrienne Rich
Who Wrote These We Claim Quotes
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