From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
Charles Sumner
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CHARLES SUMNER We have been abandoned by our own country.
AARON BROUSSARD Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
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WILLIAM STYRON The ... case has now been pending for more than 18 years. It is no longer time to talk of a compromi...
ESTELITO MENDOZA We need to compromise and Scott has put together the best compromise that I have ever heard.
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ARTHUR KOESTLER History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of hu...
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ANTHONY TROLLOPE It's a blatant political compromise. It's a sad day for arts in our town. I don't think the art muse...
JAN PLATT One learns compromise by accepting the good with the bad.
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DAVID GAMKRELIDZE The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
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WILL PEARSON Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The king hasn't made a direct intervention, but the king has been used as a reason for compromise an...
BOB BROADFOOT The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.
ROBERT FRITZ The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
CHARLES HANDY The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an ad...
CHARLES HANDY The Senate compromise may have fallen apart, but not everything is lost. The only way we're going to...
JOSE LAGOS MTOTSA, their idea of compromise is you walk away and deal with whatever legal problems you have fro...
ADAM SCHNEIDER The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,...
ANDREW CARNEGIE We have been working on a compromise for months and today we were able to hammer out one that will b...
BOB STATON The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now stro...
DEBORAH TANNEN Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
We would not intentionally compromise its integrity when there are other ways to tell the history of...
JEFF IDELSON The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise ab...
OLIVER TAMBO Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themsel...
ALI KHAMENEI The collapse of character begins with compromise.
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BURGESS OWENS All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.
ABHIJIT NASKAR I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about the...
CARLOS SLIM Human kind will prevail. And it will prevail because, in spite of the reaction of history, novels te...
CARLOS FUENTES Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human bei...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I believe demonstrations have been planned by human rights groups who are far more annoyed at the hu...
SAMINA AHMED The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to...
ROBERT TOOMBS The governor has come up with the best compromise the business community can get.
BILL DOMBROWSKI Compromise has a negative connotation.
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TANG JIAXUAN For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table...
ALEX NEVE Compromise is what binds people together. Compromise is sharing and conciliatory, it is loving and k...
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RICHARD LINKLATER Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not ch...
DAVID NOVAK Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that a...
JEANNETTE RANKIN The (Abe) comments give the impression that Governor Fukui has made some sort of compromise.
IZURU KATO He would never betray his country or compromise its national security.
EDWARD O'DONNELL What has been is what it seems will be unless we can break our conditioning by realizing our conditi...
JAMES DYE The devil is compromise
HENRIK IBSEN Our philosophy from the beginning has been to build a well known brand.
GARY GERDEMANN Ultimately he's likely to be forced to compromise more, ... there hasn't been very much in the way o...
JAMES MALCOLM We do acknowledge that we have deficiencies in the area of human rights, but at the same time we wou...
ZHU RONGJI Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work...
GARTH ANCIER Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY It may be the compromise that makes it work.
JIM ISGAR This does show a willingness by both parties to compromise. It is encouraging.
FRED ZERZA Democratic structures and the rule of law have on the whole been strengthened. Protection of human r...
GUENTER VERHEUGEN The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
FELIX FRANKFURTER The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing....
MAUDE ADAMS We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no suc...
GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign po...
JACK HOLLAND People come from all over the country to our festival. It has been wildly successful.
JOE LEE If we reach some compromise, we continue our cooperation from where we are now. That is, the researc...
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JOY MANISCALCO Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation...
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GEORGE JEAN NATHAN They have been debating for a year the question of covering everyone . . . and yet it appears that t...
ALAN SAGER There has never in human history been that many communications sources.
JEFF HESS Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but...
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CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
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