Right And Rightness

(118 votes)   In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(105 votes)   Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(101 votes)   The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(100 votes)   The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(94 votes)   A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(90 votes)   For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Frederick W. Faber
1814-1863, British Priest, Hymn Writer

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(87 votes)   There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan
1851-1931, American Biologist, Educator

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(81 votes)   Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
American Author of ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' Series

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(76 votes)   I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

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(73 votes)   Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(73 votes)   We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(68 votes)   Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(68 votes)   The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(67 votes)   If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

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(64 votes)   The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Harry Weinberger

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