Quotes about rig
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 america people
America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights. John F. Kerry
rights intellectual growth
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks. John Doerr
rights law second-amendment
If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. John Dingell
rights law people
We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law. It has created an enabling environment that allows not only foreigners to come in and invest but for Ghanaians to invest. It has created an atmosphere for our young people to be creative, innovative John Dramani Mahama
rights order political
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them. John Dickinson
rights ideas people
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me. Jimmy Wales
rights population calling
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. Garrett Hardin
rights decision choices
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
rights debt shapes
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes. George Clooney
rights long parent
I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.
rights corporations republican
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights. Joe Baca
rights movement facts
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. Joe Biden
rights care ordinary
No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights