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Quotes About Birthright

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
~ Nathan Deal
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Release the invisible potential and begin to do things you were born for
~ Sunday Adelaja
I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.
~ Saminu Kanti
in the teachings of many other contemplative or mystical traditions, the basic view is that people are fundamentally good and healthy. It's as if everyone who has ever been born has the same birthright, which is enormous potential of warm heart and clear mind. The
~ Pema Chodron
The anchor baby situation has got to stop.
~ Virgil Goode
Assim, naquele dia, Arthur venceu a prova da espada e assumiu o seu direito de nascença à realeza. Portanto, que Deus conceda a Sua graça a todos vocês, para igualmente tenham sucesso nos seus propósitos. Pois qualquer homem pode ser um Rei na vida em que foi colocado desde que seja ele que retire a espada do sucesso do ferro das circunstâncias.
~ Howard Pyle
Sell the damned estate, Devon. You owe nothing to those people. Eversby Priory isn't your birthright." Devon sent him a sardonic glance. "Then how did I end up with it?" "By bloody accident!
~ Lisa Kleypas
By listening to our deep primal messages, we reclaim our birthright as expressive, dynamic, and innovative beings. As we turn toward our core, nourishing gestures, similar to a blossoming flower, feel lush within and enrich all who witness the splendor. Sustaining every gesture, our wild psoas speaks the language of the heart, and communicates what is held most dear within our bone—the felt-sense of being alive.
~ Unknown
But any creature has life. Man is special and unique among the beasts because we have the ability to reason. I think that is our Divine gift. I feel the Gods are likely angered by any man who refuses to claim the Divine birthright of a rational mind.
~ Unknown
You are a nobleman?" I eyed him and the others listening to us with a heavy sigh. "I am the Viscount of Marsdale. My father is the Earl of Dorshire." All eyes went wide. "Oh, stop, it is a mere accident of birth.
~ Unknown
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
~ Helen Keller
Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.
~ Philippa Gregory
I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.
~ Philippa Gregory
It needs to be free. It was born free. It isn't property.
~ Dean Koontz
She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her due, and had never really had to worry about vanishing into a sea of unseen faces and unseen voices.
~ Dennis Lehane
How do you convey that sense of freedom that tasted like sweet nectar for the first time? How do you explain it to someone who was born into freedom? It is impossible to convey. It is ineffable, like trying perhaps to describe the color red to a person born blind. It is a feeling that makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time, to dance with joy, and yet fearful that it was too good to be true and that it just might all evaporate.
~ Desmond Tutu
One had known the care of other men from his earliest years, a part of the duty of his birthright; the other had come to it later, but both felt that burden to be the will of God, she had no doubt at all-both accepted that duty without question, would honor it, or die in trying. She only hoped it wouldn't come to that-for either of them.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It is your disability that makes you unique, deprived of the privileges that you are nevertheless entitled to through your birthright, outside the stereotypes of your social position, in spite of it being part of your very flesh.
~ Dacia Maraini
Don't blow your one and only shot at happiness by selling your birthright and squandering your meaning and purpose on someone else's undeserved glory. Live your own life. If you are reasonable and kind, you will discover that meaning is not handed to you from on high; it emerges naturally from your own life-driven purpose.
~ Dan Barker
Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.
~ Caroline Myss
Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.
~ Bhagat Puran Singh