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How to use the word rights in a Sentence? Page #7

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Today's action to sanction Iran's Morality Police and senior Iranian security officials responsible for this oppression demonstrates the Biden - Harris Administration's clear commitment to stand up for human rights, and the rights of women, in Iran and globally.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We condemn this unconscionable act in the strongest terms and call on the Iranian government to end its violence against women and its ongoing violent crackdown on free expression and assembly, today's action to sanction Iran's Morality Police and senior Iranian security officials responsible for this oppression demonstrates the Biden - Harris Administration's clear commitment to stand up for human rights, and the rights of women, in Iran and globally.

Mahsa Amini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, it's ironic and really disturbing that in the last several in the last five years, I've received multiple awards for my work, fighting for and defending human rights, fighting for and defending religious freedom, and now over the past year, the government has threatened me with termination, excluded me from the workforce, discriminated against me and subjected me to harassment, for standing up for those very principles, for human rights and for religious freedom and for the right to bodily autonomy and medical choice.

Marcus Thornton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Other fundamental values for Brazilian society, reflected in the human rights agenda, are the defense of the family, the right to life from conception, self-defense and the repudiation of gender ideology.

Jair Bolsonaro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m for First Amendment rights, so I would be glad for her to finish her review of me. First Amendment rights’s fine, i like to use Annie Payne as well, so you go ahead.

Annie Payne

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All of her assignments before were not as clear cut. If you look at [ migration issues related to diplomacy at the ] Northern Triangle, look at voting rights, there was no clear way to measure success, i just reminded her that she and the President are both the biggest assets that we have.

Cedric Richmond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Abortion is legal, safe and accessible here in California -- whether or not you live here, know that we have your back, as Republican states continue rolling back fundamental civil rights and even try to prevent people from accessing information online or crossing state lines for care, you're welcome here in California and we'll continue to fight like hell for you.

Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By publicly speaking out to support trans youth, country music superstar, Maren Morris is connecting with an audience who may be less familiar with the transgender community and the current wave of attacks on their rights, not only is Maren Morris using Maren Morris platform and influence to help further the conversation and likely change hearts and minds, Maren Morris is raising crucial funds which will go directly into GLAAD and Trans Trans Lifeline's work to support the trans community at a time when it's needed more than ever.

Anthony Allen Ramos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve long championed restoration of voting rights immediately once someone has served their sentence, and I mean, honestly, even when someone is locked up.

Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's really critical in this time that not just the ACLU, but people throughout the nation stand up for the rights of all students to learn and have access to a wide range of ideas, particularly those related to historically oppressed communities.

Kate Huddleston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.

Albert Jay Nock

added by Normando
1 year ago

I would say that Roe v. Wade being overturned didn't necessarily change who I was going to vote for, but I think that it could absolutely change how people who are more so in the middle, like my mom, they will be more so pushed to vote for people who are going to protect the reproductive rights, i could not have said that better myself.

Emily Shereda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're not just talking about the same people that we were before. We're broadening the scope, and I think that's where people get more uncomfortable because it's so different from the way we've been thinking of reproductive rights and pregnancy for a long time.

Kristen Syrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On a phony pretext from a highly political magistrate who they hand-picked late in the evening just days before the break-in and trampled upon my rights and civil liberties as if our country that we love so much were a third world nation, we’re like a third world nation.

Former President Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

With today's Supreme Court decision to endanger the health and safety of millions of women across the country, California must do everything it can to protect the fundamental rights of all women -- in California and beyond.

Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The MAGA Republicans don't just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they're a threat to our very democracy, they refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace political violence. They don't believe in democracy.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Seeing that Dobbs decision is a concern to me, and the other issues that this other radical Supreme Court -- radically conservative Supreme Court -- have signaled, the other personal rights Alaska Native women're talking about infringing upon is a great concern to me.

Mary Peltola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's not any binding precedent that says you can't, right ? And so when the law doesn't say you can't do something and you're a prosecutor trying to get a conviction, trouble can ensue, given the gravity of the harm that can come from this and the important artistic rights and First Amendment rights at stake, this is an easy call.

Alex Spiro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This a great victory for workers who have the courage to join together and organize in a system that is currently stacked heavily in favor of employers like Tesla who have no qualms about violating the law, while we celebrate the justice in today's ruling by an increasingly pro-worker The NLRB, it also nevertheless highlights the substantial flaws in U.S. labor law. Here is a company that clearly took numerous aggressive and unlawful steps to block workers' rights, and yet it is more than four years down the road before workers see a modicum of justice.

United Auto Workers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are getting into areas that are parental rights areas, and you should be able to have conversations with your children based on your own personal values, about what you think about gender identity or any kind of identity affirmation as it pertains to your children, and they're basically what we're seeing is public school is crossing into a jurisdiction where they don't belong in.

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The emergency that exists nationally has arrived in Nevada right now, voting rights and the process of voting are under siege.

Athar Haseebullah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just so clear how deeply this hit people and how scared they were and how sad they were and how angry they were, we had to bring voice to that and put it under a larger umbrella and framework so that people who might not have had that personal experience could still understand it as a real assault on other Americans' rights and understand that it would have consequences for them as well.

Pat Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The' Alexander Hamilton' family stands for tolerance, compassion, inclusivity and certainly LGBTQ + rights.

Shane Marshall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's not just our machines or our people that we send into space. It's our values. It's who we are. It's things like rule of law, democracy, human rights, and a free market economy i see Artemis and our human expansion into space as a projection of our American values. It's about diplomatically shaping this new domain that we depend on.

Scott Pace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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