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«It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| Keywords:
defend, human right, Human rights, obligations, rights, the West, West
«I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.»
Author: Coretta Scott King
| Keywords:
Americans, bigotry, Human rights, oppose, orientation, prejudice, sexual, sexual orientation, tolerance
«Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.»
Author: Dick Gregory
| Keywords:
belonging, bills, Bill of Rights, black people, civil, civil right, civil rights, confused, Human rights, installment, installments, installment plan, stature, statures, the US
«Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.»
«America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
America, Human rights, invent, invented, rights, the other way around
«Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''»
Author: Suzanne LaFollette
| Keywords:
application, espouse, espoused, espouses, espousing, human right, Human rights, mental, mental reservation, no doubt, proper, reservation, Reservations, rights, The Word
«As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
defended, discussion, guarded, Human rights, public discussion, Public place, public speaking, Public welfare, welfare
«For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Liberty,
Life
| Keywords:
devoted, Human resources, Human rights, Inhabitants, nourishment, nuclear, resources, right to the pursuit of happiness, The Pursuit of Happiness
«Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
accident, by and large, countries, democracies, democratic, environment, go to war, Human rights, it No, social justice, social rights, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors, terrorism, terrorists
«Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
absence, dictates, dictating, Human rights, justice, justice of the peace, Just War, Peace and Freedom, recognition, rights
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