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Quotes About Rights

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
~ Neil Gaiman
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
~ Neil Gaiman
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
~ Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
~ Nelson Mandela
Without democracy there cannot be peace.
~ Nelson Mandela
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
~ Nelson Mandela
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
~ Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts
~ Nelson Mandela
For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society
~ Nelson Mandela
a child is born free
~ Nelson Mandela
But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.
~ Nelson Mandela
We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom. Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 10, 1993
~ Nelson Mandela
To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration
~ Nelson Mandela
There is no such thing as part freedom.
~ Nelson Mandela
Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never return.
~ Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign.
~ Nelson Mandela
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~ Nelson Mandela
we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela
This would be a hazardous life, and I would be apart from my family, but when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
~ Nelson Mandela
Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.
~ Nelson Mandela
What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?
~ Nelson Mandela
GLBT leaders like to criticize young gays for not taking the movement seriously, but don't listen to them. Just remember that at Stonewall we were defending our right to have fun, to meet each other, and to have sex.
~ Unknown
By the way we also hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they have been endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life Liberty & the pursuit of Happiness & last but not least that 2+2 makes 4 unless otherwise instructed
~ Nicanor Parra