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William Ellery Channing: “The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.”

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Vaclav Havel: “Genuine politics -- every politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.”

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Felix Adler: “A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.” more

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Hubert H. Humphrey: “We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.”

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Aldous Huxley: “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”

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Jimmy Carter: “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.”

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A. Philip Randolph: “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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Robert G. Ingersoll: “The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right he claims for himself.”

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Susan B. Anthony: “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.”

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Howard Dean: “From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.”

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Noam Chomsky: “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

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Suzanne LaFollette: “Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word 'human.'”

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Jimmy Carter: “Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

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Carl Schurz: “From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's interests without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

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Charles Evan Hughes: “When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”

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Rowan D. Williams: “The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

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Robert Burns: “While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. ”

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Thomas Paine: “Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.--Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection. From this short review it will be easy to distinguish between that class of natural rights which man retains after entering into society, and those which he throws into common stock as a member of society. The natural rights which he retains, are all those in which the power to execute is as perfect in the individual as the right itself. Among this class, as is before mentioned, are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind; consequently, religion is one of those rights. The natural rights which are not retained, are all those in which, though the right is perfect in the individual, the power to execute them is defective. They answer not his purposes. A man by natural right has a right to judge in his own cause; and so far as the right of the mind is concerned, he never surrenders it; but what availeth it him to judge, if he has not power to redress it? He therefore deposits this right in the common stock of society, and takes the arm of society, of which he is a part, in preference and in addition to his own. Society grants him nothing. Every man is a proprietor in society, and draws on the capital as a matter of right.”

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Thomas Paine: “The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then done as a rule for the present day. This is no authority at all. If we travel still further into antiquity, we shall find a directly contrary opinion and practice prevailing; and, if antiquity is to be authority, a thousand such authorities may be produced, successively contradicting each other: but if we proceed on, we shall at last come out right: we shall come to the time when man came from the hand of his maker. What was he then? Man. Man was his high and only title, and a higher cannot be given him.”

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Wilma Mankiller: “I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.”

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Harry S Truman: “Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Self-respect knows no considerations.”

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Robert Burns: “Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”

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