We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
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God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.No human being is superior over another.
EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.
When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.
Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.
We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.
If we want to be endowed with rights _ real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.
It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.
Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.
The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.
Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.