Quotes about rights
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.
rights care sin
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
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 europe perfect
There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights. James Connolly
rights citizens modern
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. Jacques Maritain
rights government citizens
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens. Franklin D. Roosevelt
rights years freedom-of-speech
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.
rights long democracy
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
rights law would-be
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. Joichi Ito
rights liberty democracy
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
rights law terrorism
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
rights organization justice
The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees. John Bruton
rights community movement
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics. Luis Gutierrez
rights support use
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. John Charles Polanyi
rights nsa president
Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process. Ray McGovern
rights expression people
I would say that not many German people are still alive, who experienced what happened during the third reich. We don't have to go to the Stasi, we can go to the Gestapo, and see what happens, when your human rights, your ability to a freedom of expression and a freedom of thought is infringed upon. This is terribly, terribly dangerous territory.
rights argument pagan
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. Thomas Jefferson
rights government paper
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.
rights evil separation
The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.
rights two rotation
There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last...
rights expression florida
Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished. ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.
rights religion natural
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
rights government giving
Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to government at all) it must be so extensive as that local egoisms may never reach its greater part; that on every particular question, a majority may be found in its councils free from particular interests, and giving, therefore, an uniform prevalence to the principles of justice.
rights law majority-rule
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
rights natural authority
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
rights government resorts
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
rights government people
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.
rights people democracy
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
rights government law
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.
rights government law
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
rights office liberty
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.
rights leader political
Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates... Robert Higgs