Rights in sentence

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This purchase included mining and hunting rights, ownership of all land on the island, and a castle with no furniture included.

I am an activist, passionate about human rights innovation.

I know it is weird to talk about play and human rights in the same sentence, but here is why it's important.

"Beat." is the first winner in our lab series where we pair artists and technologists to work on human rights issues.

Sometimes, when I talk about taking risks and trying and failing in the context of human rights, I meet raised eyebrows, eyebrows that say, "How irresponsible," or, "How insensitive."

Just take a look at the Global Parliament of Mayors, set up by the late Ben Barber, who was driving an urban rights movement.

A victor in a thousand contests, three great civil rights laws, Medicare, aid to education.

By 1913, women’s rights activists had been campaigning for decades.

Rather than conduct costly campaigns on a state-by-state basis, Paul sought the long-lasting impact of a constitutional amendment, which would protect women’s voting rights nationwide.

In this way, the march initiated a surge of support for women’s voting rights that endured in the coming years.

Others were the so-called "street queens," who were often targeted by police for their gender expression and found themselves on the forefront of seminal events in the LGBT rights movement.

Then, as segregation raged in much of the country, young black people helped spearhead civil rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s.

The history of the South Wales Valleys is of a fight for rights.

Now, similarly, in Locke’s society there are individuals who have certain rights, properties in a formal sense, and those are defined with respect to some absolute, abstract notions of rights and justice, and so forth, which are independent of what else has happened in the society.

We get our individual rights by society protecting us from others not doing everything they can do but largely doing only what is legal.

I also got at the time a workbook which explained my rights and my working conditions, and I still have that workbook.

So it was an early exercise of intellectual property rights.

I was walking around on the streets of Amsterdam and I recognized, you know, the big story from Amsterdam isn't what's in the design stores, it's what's out on the streets, and maybe it's self-explanatory, but a city that hasn't been taken over by modernism, that's preserved its kind of architecture and character, and where the bicycle plays an important part of the way in which people get around and where pedestrian rights are protected.

if we weren't on this bus, we wouldn't have the rights we enjoy."

That all men, that all women, that even all trans people are created equal and are endowed by your Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

You talked to me that day about the fact that people considered the restaurant a safe haven where they could come together, particularly if they were working on civil rights, human rights, working to change the laws.

If Sheryl Sandberg had written a book on gun rights or on the pro-life movement, would they be flying Sheryl to Cannes?

Maybe it's because my dad was a civil rights attorney and my parents were socially conscious and demanded that we stand up for what we believe in.

And in the last 16 years, I've been at HIAS, the Jewish organization that fights for refugee rights around the world, as a lawyer and an advocate.

And he decided human rights is not important enough to include in his agendas, and he did not talk about it.

If we don't fight for human rights for the people who are oppressed right now who don't have a voice, as free people here, who will fight for us when we are not free?

I think it's wonderful that we care about climate change, animal rights, gender equality, all of these things.

The fact that we care about animals' rights, that means that's how beautiful our heart is, that we care about someone who cannot speak for themselves.

[This talk contains mature content] Rana Ayyub is a journalist in India whose work has exposed government corruption and human rights violations.

I'm a law professor, lawyer and civil rights advocate.

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