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• “We have a responsibility and at some point you just have to stand up for what is rightless than a minute ago via Twitter for AndroidDrew Brees drewbrees”

  The Washington Post: Players, owners react as NFLPA decertifies, lockout looms

• “As stateless persons, they wake up bearing the status of the most vulnerable -- the rightless.”

  The Huffington Post: Danielle C. Jefferis: Waking Up Stateless in Jerusalem

• “She was now rightless, only a nameless animal, incapable of doing anything whatsoever to qualify or alter her status.”

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• “The calamity of the rightless," wrote Hannah Arendt, "is not that they are deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or of equality before the law and the freedom of opinion -- formulas which were designed to solve problem within given communities -- but they no longer belong to any community whatsoever.”

  Aldo Civico: Colombia: The Calamity of Displaced People

• “People who join the National Front consider force a globally acceptable tool and consider some of us rightless untermenschen.”

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• “Scholarly accounts of "slave" (nhloko) marriage stress the exploited, oppressed, and rightless status of such women and their children, who were sought to enlarge the Gaza ruling class and to provide elite Nguni or acculturated "Tsonga" men with a means of accumulating wealth and attracting followers.”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

• “The nature of her own personal activism is based on the fact of reality that women in that world are virtually rightless beings at the mercy of a barbaric stone-age culture.”

  Actual Royalty To Join Social Media Royalty At Le Web 2009

• “African communities that had submitted to the Boer yoke earlier were rightless helots from amongst whom the Boer farmers could impress labourers.”

  SPEECH DELIVERED BY Z PALLO JORDAAN - ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS

• “Our people too crossed the ocean of dispossession and displacement to become rightless labourers in the land of their birth.”

  ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE 19TH MEETING OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AND COMMON MARKET (CARICOM)

• “And thus ranged against one another, in intensifying conflict, were the oppressor and the oppressed, the owners of the wealth of the country and the dispossessed, the rightless and the privileged.”

  Further Submissions and Responses by the ANC to Questions raised by the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation

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