Quotes about rig
rights duty ifs
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. Mahatma Gandhi
rights source duty
The true source of rights is duty. Mahatma Gandhi
rights flow duty
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. Mahatma Gandhi
rights violence made
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. Mahatma Gandhi
rights care sin
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi
rights years people
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. Johannes Rau
rights government two
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate governments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself. James Madison
rights law mediocrity
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort. James Madison
rights government two
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated. James Madison
rights government liberty
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. James Madison
rights extinction environment
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction. James L. Farmer, Jr.
rights judging police
The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful. James Lafferty
rights forget citizenship
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. Eric Liu
rights shelter want
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. Emma Thompson
rights broken feminism
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. Emma Goldman
rights decision challenges
There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process. John McCain
rights citizens administration
And we are in a strange conundrum. You can kill an American citizen overseas. But according to this administration, if you capture him in the United States, they've got to be read their Miranda rights. John McCain
rights liberty
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own. John Jay Chapman
rights people united-states
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about John Hume
rights ifs property
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure. Neal Boortz
rights civilization white
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled. Neal Boortz
rights names impact
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses. Ralph Nader
rights essence environmental
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment. Ralph Nader
rights progress society
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights. Ralph Bunche
rights african-american movement
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.
rights church movement
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. Shane Claiborne
rights lafayette natural
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Michelle Moran
rights government safety
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won. Sherrod Brown
rights long people
An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.
rights government bigger
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger. John Stossel
rights viewpoints trouble
The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended. John Sparkman
rights government numbers
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff. Mark Steyn
rights abuse domestic-violence
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time. Nicole Kidman