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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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A screaming comes across the sky.

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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

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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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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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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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Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

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