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Give to every human being every right that you cl

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if yo

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of

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If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

You are a human being. You have rights inhe

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You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a dri

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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Silence never won rights. They are not hand

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Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we

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And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul?
Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?

I believe in equality for everyone, except report

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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I tramp

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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustic

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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compa

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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others t

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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.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody

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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I fee

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

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No man is above the law and no man below it.

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