Quotes about rig
rights names demand
I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles. Walter Lippmann
rights history should
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. Voltaire
rights individual-power principles
Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop. William Ernest Hocking
rights principles legal-rights
Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
rights funny-marriage holy
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." William Rehnquist
rigidity
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. Wilhelm Reich
rights pages bills
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans. William J. Brennan
rights government views
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government. William Jennings Bryan
rights long matter
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
rights people independence
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history... Woodrow Wilson
rights breathing white
The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides. William James
rights america long
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive. Westbrook Pegler
rights organization unions
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union. Ronald Reagan
rights government liberty
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
rights female doe
Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. Warren Farrell
rights people force
In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights. Yoweri Museveni
rights people community
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community. Ziggy Marley
rights government voice
I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.
rights democracy unions
We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. William Hague
rights government law
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
rights reform settings
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. William Hazlitt
rights government political
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. Wendell Phillips
rights justice defense
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation. Wendell Berry
right-now ifs
If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now. Willie Nelson
rights law trying
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights. Zoe Lister-Jones
rights duty concerned
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties. Zadie Smith