Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Rights Quotes, Passive Resistance Quotes

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

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We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

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Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

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When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

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When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.

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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

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[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

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I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

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The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

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The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

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I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.

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I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

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I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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