Quotes about rig
rights law people
Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process. Daniel Kammen
rights movement womens-rights
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. Constance Baker Motley
rights years long
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented. Conor Oberst
rights roots effort
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights. Clare Short
righteous righteous-indignation indignation
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. Clarence Darrow
right-now
Right now, we are doing it blindly. Donald Berwick
rights issues impact
There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person's life when they have been falsely accused. Kirsten [Gillibrand] and I are not unaware that that is an issue we need to be concerned about, and that's why we have made changes in the legislation to address not just the rights of the victim, the accuser, but also of the accused. Claire McCaskill
rights pages bills
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes Daniel Pennac
rights years eight
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market. Cynthia McKinney
rights unions may
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. Daniel Webster
rights government order
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.
rights justice dollars
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. Dick Gregory
rights white black
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
rights race different
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race. Desmond Tutu
rights challenges earth
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
rights fundamentals humans
Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.
rights lost apartheid
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
rights human-rights humans
I recognize no rights but human rights. Angelina Grimke
rights california creating
The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance. Chuck Todd
rights government minorities
A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. Alf Landon
rights political population
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been accomplished by measures equally advantageous to the Indians. What the native savages become when surrounded by a dense population and by mixing with the whites may be seen in the miserable remnants of a few Eastern tribes, deprived of political and civil rights, forbidden to make contracts, and subjected to guardians, dragging out a wretched existence, without excitement, without hope, and almost without thought. Andrew Jackson
rights government people
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
rights iran practice
Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security. Allyson Schwartz
rights speak equal
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves. Andy Rooney
right-time
It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it. Ann Patchett
rights movement lessons
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. Andrew Young
rights long voting
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
rights unions explosions
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
rights littles sitting
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights. Chuck Palahniuk
rights play democracy
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. Chuck Hagel
rights want
I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
rights who-we-are equal
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve. Andrew Cohen
rights preparation demand
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others. Andrew Carnegie