Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
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Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
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When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone
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There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief
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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
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Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
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For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.
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The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them
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To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences
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