Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
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Related People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone el... CARL LEWIS Without the Civil Air Patrol, I would have gone into the Army not knowing as much as I did. I was ah... AARON LINDEMANN I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav... DERICK VIRGIL While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ... MAYA ANGELOU A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a ... JAMES T. WALSH While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ... MAYA ANGELOU If [King ] had not reacted with nonviolence and, more importantly, caused everyone else to react tha... MIKE BEEBE As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread ... IAN HOLM Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. ALBERT CAMUS Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian ALBERT CAMUS Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all rig... CHRIS FARLEY The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. RICKY MARTIN I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or... TAHAR RAHIM I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. AUNG SAN SUU KYI Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents... JOHN LEGEND If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA I don't like it, just like everyone else doesn't like it, but it's a safety issue, and as much as it... AARON KRAMER They are human beings like everyone else. You have to try your best and sometimes mistakes can happe... OLASOT I am just like everyone else. I am in a state of shock. I don't believe it happened. CHARLIE MACARTHUR The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have ma... CORETTA SCOTT KING Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels. ELIOT SPITZER There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to h... MARY ROBINSON Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. BJORN ULVAEUS I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginnin... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, l... QUEEN LATIFAH I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho... SIMON BIRD I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one. EDWARD BROOKE Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in ... DAVID HARRIS Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in ... DAVID HARRIS Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES On a human level, I feel extremely sorry for them, but I do understand that in a country the size of... KATRINE CAMILLERI I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my ... LARA GIDDINGS I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life... THANDIE NEWTON Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional. MICHAEL PENA I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my... JANE AUSTEN A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien... W. H. AUDEN I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anythin... FRANCES MAYES I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are... VANESSA HUDGENS I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. MARLEE MATLIN A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien... W. H. AUDEN The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ... NEHA KOTHARI Adopted people are the only people who do not have access to information about themselves that every... KAREN LYNN I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfec... QUEEN LATIFAH Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governme... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF This is insane. That kid never so much as raised his voice at me ... This is all pretty much a shock... HEATHER VOLTON She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I. JESSICA MARIE BAUMGARTNER I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-Americ... DAVID DUKE I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime com... SHINZO ABE Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. PHOTO Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. UNKNOWN Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else ALISON BOULTER I was snowed in a couple of years, just like everyone else, DOC SEVERINSEN In my view, you stepped on his rights as an American citizen and as a human being. BOB KEELEY I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be thi... GABRIELA ISLER I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much... ANDREW KENDALL In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than th... MARY RITTER BEARD Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or s... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone... LEE ATWATER Naturally, we could also arrive at sensible cooperation with the new rights holders. I would like as... GEORGE KOFLER And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ... ANNELI RUFUS Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he... VICTORIA AVEYARD Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently. DAN SHECHTMAN I am ticked right off. I am disgusted and like everyone else outraged. JULIAN FANTINO It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is com... CAMERON DOKEY I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does. MORRISSEY It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I was pretty much stunned by the numbers like everyone else. I could not believe that with just a sm... BERNIE BURKHOLDER I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. J. P. DONLEAVY Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with... LAURELL K. HAMILTON I am not homophobic. I have no problem sitting next to a gay couple. They need to be loved as much a... A.J. CHILSON (Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.) RAINBOW ROWELL The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block... PEGGY HICKS Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, an... ODETTE ANNABLE I think in a way he's a one-trick pony, and I don't mean to say that to demean him. Bush has self-se... MICHAEL GENOVESE I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress a... AMANDA BYNES I just try to be an all-around player. Scoring isn't everything. I'm just happy we won the game. I l... ANGELEI AGUIRRE
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