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1. Rights

   Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology. The history of social conflicts has often involved attempts to define and redefine rights. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived".

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1. rights

   Rights are principles or entitlements that individuals possess by virtue of being human, which protect and preserve their freedom, autonomy, dignity, and well-being. These rights are typically recognized and guaranteed by laws or ethical frameworks, ensuring that every person is entitled to certain freedoms, privileges, and protections, without discrimination or oppression.

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1. Rights

   Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology. Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization, being regarded as established pillars of society and culture, and the history of social conflicts can be found in the history of each right and its development. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived." The connection between rights and struggle cannot be overstated — rights are not as much granted or endowed as they are fought for and claimed, and the essence of struggles past and ancient are encoded in the spirit of current concepts of rights and their modern formulations.

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1. rights

   Plural form of the word right.

   The civil rights movement made great changes throughout society.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 7, 2020  

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   rights

   Social, ethical and moral principles, legislation, rules, entitlement or guidelines that empower optimum health, human rights, democracy, right to life, the fasttrack cocreation of socialism, socialist unity government, socialist policies, the fasttrack of building public housing on public land using nationalized construction organizations, free education, unity, stability, redistribution of wealth and resources across a country, freedom and the sharing of income, wealth and time locally, regionally, nationally, europeanlly and internationally for the shared optimum health, human rights, peace, prosperity and freedom of human beings and animals.

   Our rights are simple and easy to create and achieve together as a united humanity and animals.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

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   Rank popularity for the word 'rights' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #751

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   Rank popularity for the word 'rights' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1437

Anagrams for rights »

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How to pronounce rights?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rights in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rights in a Sentence

1. Ken Mehlman:

   If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it’s clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do,” Ken Mehlman said in an interview. “By contrast, opposing equal rights is a net negative that gets problematic to more voters each year.”

2. Joanne Lin:

   Reports of the omission of key passages pertaining to sexual and reproductive rights, women's rights and the rights of marginalized populations, combined with the Administration's deference to known human rights violators like the governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, make us skeptical that these reports present a full picture of human rights around the world.

3. Ryan Pack:

   Human rights: The only human rights any person should ever have is the rights that are just, morally right. For example the freedom of speech, the freedom of expression, the freedom of the press. Those are just a few rights every one should have, however even these rights need to be used in just ways. People can't run around doing whatever they want just because they have freedom, otherwise you get violence, crime, sin, injustice, tragedy, suffering, death and Hell.

4. Rick Ector:

   If a person calls himself a civil rights activist and is anti-gun, he is a fraud. Gun rights are civil rights.

5. Chelsea Clinton:

   We also have to break through the barriers of bigotry. African-American parents shouldn't have to worry that their children will be harassed, humiliated, even shot because of the color of their skin, i believe so strongly that we have to keep up with every fiber of our being the argument for, the campaign for human rights. Human rights as women's rights, human rights as gay rights, human rights as worker rights, human rights as voting rights, human rights across the board for every single American. Now, that is who I am.

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