#rights

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. ↗

— John Wooden

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Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. ↗

— Andrew Young

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The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#demand #equal #equal rights #every #fair

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#criminals #destroy #limits #permission #puts

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

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"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault. ↗

— Richard Hanna

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Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#animal #animal rights #being #human #human rights

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil rights #had #king #leader