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rights citizens georgia
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. Dean Rusk
rights gone creation
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. Eldridge Cleaver
rights long political
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights dignity born
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... Eleanor Roosevelt
rights president individual
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights government democracy
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights events today
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights air knives
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231) Eduardo Galeano
rights class community
where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton
president took
On inflation, the president took note: things are bad. Mikhail Fradkov
presidents shape
Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. Thomas Friedman
president going-out want
President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out. Dee Dee Myers
president trying firsts
I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one. Dikembe Mutombo
president looks former
If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators. Eleanor Clift
president world calm
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. Eliot Spitzer
president administration serious
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. Elena Kagan
president should posts
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. Abdul Kalam
presidential want strikes
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. Abraham Lincoln
democracy france worrying
like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy. Lionel Jospin
democracy love maybe means searching telling
Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth. Corazon Aquino
democracy ensure fair free victory
Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy. Ranil Wickremesinghe
democracy dreams expect influence spoke state wildest
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action. Audrey Miller
democracy public-education
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy Diane Ravitch
democracy slavery poverty
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. Democritus
democracy problem miscellaneous
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it? Eleanor Roosevelt
democracy rifles bombers
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. Edward Abbey
democracy instead
I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy. David Anderson