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Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin. -- G. Edward Griffin
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. -- Ai Weiwei
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. -- Zoe Lofgren
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. -- Ian Mckellen
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live. -- Pope John Paul II
One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else. -- Judy Sheindlin
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. -- Eliot Spitzer
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. -- Joan D. Chittister
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it. -- Galarrwuy Yunupingu
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities. -- Diane Ravitch
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz -- A. J. Jacobs
Rights are subordinate to responsibilities. -- Len Smith
When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights. -- Stuart Briscoe
If something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights. -- Emily Berrington
it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities -- Randy Pausch
No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. -- Richard Layard, Baron Layard
No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights. -- Richard Layard, Baron Layard
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. -- Bill Maher
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. -- Otis Moss III
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities. -- Jose Andres Puerta
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. -- Lou Holtz
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. -- Timothy Noah
It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders. -- James Hunter
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. -- John F. Kennedy
If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for! -- Stefan Emunds
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
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. -- Maya Angelou
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population. -- Noam Chomsky
If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States. -- John Roberts
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. -- Laura Wasser
In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded. -- Harry Woodburn Chase
Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening core civil liberties, rights and civic responsibilities. -- Henry Giroux

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