Quotes about rights
rights impact movement
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... Noam Chomsky
rights pleasure states
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state. Mary McCarthy
rights tonight world
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop. John Green
rights should ends
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. Paul Farmer
rights way humans
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
rights want shut-up
All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up. Martha Griffiths
rights government community
In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right. Paul Ryan
rights oil civil-rights
When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25. Michael Savage
rights government rare-occasion
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. Michael K. Simpson
rights government effort
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny. Mark Levin
rights knows threatened
When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened. Christopher Dodd
rights risk liberty
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
rights age cheaper
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. Hayao Miyazaki
rights essence ethics
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. Hans Kung
rights justice instruction
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. Frances Wright
rights people not-good-enough
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. Floyd Abrams
rights states permit
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights. George W. Romney
rights arbitrary use
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway. George Washington
rights kingdom-hearts insightful
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
rights government long
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.
rights office asylums
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.
rights guarantees-that justice
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue. George Nethercutt
rights soul doubt
no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any Friedrich Nietzsche
rights racism abuse
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. John Prendergast
rights government voice
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. John Quincy Adams
rights together credit
Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that. Noel Clarke
rights people democracy
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. Thomas Jefferson
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
rights views anchors
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy. John F. Kennedy
rights force nations
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.