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Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

— Jehane Noujaim

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

— Kerry Washington

The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.

— Shaffi Mather

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

— Yuri Kochiyama

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

— John Roberts

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

— Vivienne Westwood

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.

— Edward Snowden

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

— Harvey Milk

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

— Suzan DelBene

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

— A. Philip Randolph

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