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Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort. -- Nan Aron
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. -- Leonard Peltier
Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control. -- Kalle Lasn
Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy. -- Elena Kagan
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate, -- Basmah bint Saud
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. -- Ernestine Rose
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism. -- Russ Feingold
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world. -- Barack Obama
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms -- Boris Yeltsin
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from? -- Nancy Pearcey
All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals? -- Kenan Evren
We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it. -- Andrey Illarionov
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is. -- Orhan Pamuk
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. -- George Hickenlooper
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age mysticism, Native American folklore, and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms. -- Helen Chenoweth-Hage
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed. -- Adolf Hitler
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms. -- U Thant
We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars. -- David Duke
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms. -- Stjepan Mesic
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms. -- Dmitry Medvedev
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. -- Vladimir Putin
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms. -- Fethullah Gulen
I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. -- Martha Gellhorn
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights. -- Ben Shapiro
Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past. -- David Cottrell
On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate. -- Basmah bint Saud
We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms. -- Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American. -- Bob Latta
Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms. -- Dick Durbin

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