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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. -- Barbara Boxer
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin. -- Gerry Adams
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe. -- James Inhofe
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights. -- Jack Antonoff
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' -- Thomas Sowell
I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that. -- Ishmael Beah
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. -- Charles Fourier
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. -- David Brin
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. -- Jacques Maritain
Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. -- Jim Gaffigan
Respect, reverence, self-esteemAre my basic requisites I refuse to be a competitorWho struggles for personal rights -- Balroop Singh
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. -- Chen Shui-bian
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. -- Massad Ayoob
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day -- Aung San
My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. -- Ai Weiwei
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. -- John Rawls
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. -- Sharon Anthony Bower
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. -- Imelda Marcos
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights. -- Stefan Molyneux
[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country. -- Marco Rubio
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want. -- Tim Berners-Lee
It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else. -- Jon Stewart
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights. -- Andy Garcia
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution. -- Ai Weiwei
The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic. -- Abdul Sattar Edhi
As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.' -- Nat Hentoff
I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin. -- Waris Dirie
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 without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. -- Moby
When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick. -- Cesar Chavez
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties. -- Barack Obama

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