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Letter "R" » Rights of Man
«If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
abstract, discussion, explanation, parity, prevails, Rights of Man, shrink, shrink from
«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»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
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Amid, empires, Empire State, fix, fuss, fussed, fussing, LISP, lisped, lisping, lisps, mention, quack, quacks, Rights of Man, The Empire State, The Fall, The Rights of Man
«What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
All of Us, American Express, an American, faiths, generosity, political, political liberty, Rights of Man, right to liberty, social, social rights, suppose, The Rights of Man
«The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Right
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defective, defectives, projected, Rights of Man, sadly, superstructure, superstructures, The Rights of Man
«The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Right
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generosity, hand of God, Rights of Man, the Hand, The Rights of Man, The State
«Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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advocated, advocates, advocating, ages, all ages, battled, fearless, infidels, Rights of Man, The Advocate, The Infidels, The Rights of Man
«Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, claiming, corresponding, duties, History of the, inherent, occasion, parliamentary, privileges, records, Rights and privileges, Rights of Man, sophism, stated, The Rights of Man
«Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Inalienable rights, Rights of Man, unchangeable
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