Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform. - Nick Clegg

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I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites. -Marsha P. Johnson

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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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A screaming comes across the sky.

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ― Mother Teresa

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Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

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I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. ― John F. Kennedy

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