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Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment, Jack Balkin
rights desire identity
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations. Babatunde Osotimehin
rights order liberty
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. B. R. Ambedkar
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If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan Bill Delahunt
rights law walking-away
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. Bianca Jagger
rights years lasts
I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
rights our-world law
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.
rights truth-is individual
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live. Bertha von Suttner
rights mind church
The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others. Carl Sagan
longer matter relief weeks
Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that. Phil Zepeda
longer message misery payoff remain suffering terms
Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.
longer people seem shocked
People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry, David Friedman
longer looking planets prior stars start terms
Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.
longer mean monitor
Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.
long periods long-periods-of-time
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. Beck
long chance i-loved-you
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get. Becca Fitzpatrick
long political quality
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?' Barry Ritholtz
long people trying
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people. Barry Lopez
democracy fighting parties
Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.
democracy people resulting sudden undermine war
Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even. Mahathir Mohamad
democracy
Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.
democracy election vote
Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read. Bernie Sanders
democracy difficult fragile landmark towards
landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy. Emma Bonino
democracy aristocracy poverty
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism. Bill Vaughan
democracy impossible belief
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. Bertrand Russell
democracy duty means promote view violence
It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change, Charles Clark
democracy everybody journalist laptop suppose thinks
I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem. Helen Thomas