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passive-resistance earnest persons
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. Herman Melville
passive-resistance rights suffering
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. Mahatma Gandhi
rights citizens georgia
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. Dean Rusk
rights gone creation
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. Eldridge Cleaver
rights long political
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights dignity born
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... Eleanor Roosevelt
rights president individual
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights government democracy
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights events today
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt
rights air knives
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231) Eduardo Galeano
rights class community
where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton
suffering-and-death vegan vegetarian
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it. Albert Schweitzer
suffering christ poor
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you. Charles Spurgeon
suffering
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes. Charles Peguy
suffering matter limits
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. Dennis Prager
suffering injustice unhappiness
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democritus
suffering honor lord
The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
suffering earth christ
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
suffering christ crosses
The cross is suffering with Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
suffering prison built
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. Eduardo Galeano