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The
only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights
of people you don't agree with.
-- Eleanor
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We
need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism.
We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation
safe.
-- Barack Obama
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For
all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up
his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.
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I
knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
-- Rosa Parks
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All
of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children
have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the
shelf -- that book I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so
does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
-- Katherine Patterson
Demanding
domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties
and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their
freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary
to remain safe and secure.
-- US Representative Ron Paul
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Governments
exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection:
they have many friends and few enemies.
-- Wendell
Phillips | 
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In the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of
a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed,
as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in
the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified
life.
-- Pope John XXIII, 1881-1963 Pacem in Terris, 1963
Power
always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the
cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-- William Proxmire
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"A
community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the
highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful
possess."
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Those
who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have
died to win them.
-- Franklin
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See
also HUMAN RIGHTS Quotes
