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[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.Collection: Rights
I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.Collection: Rights
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.Collection: Rights
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.Collection: Rights
If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.Collection: Rights
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.Collection: Rights
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experienceCollection: Rights
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.Collection: Rights
When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."Collection: Rights
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.Collection: Rights
The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.Collection: Rights
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.Collection: Rights
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.Collection: Rights
Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.Collection: Rights
Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.Collection: Rights
I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.Collection: Rights
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 tastesCollection: Rights
We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.Collection: Rights
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.Collection: Rights
Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.Collection: Rights
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.Collection: Rights
We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.Collection: Rights
The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.Collection: Rights
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.Collection: Rights
The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.Collection: Rights
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government - principles that recognize that because all of us are equal in the eyes of our creator, all life is sacred at every stage of life.Collection: Rights
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.Collection: Rights
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.Collection: Rights
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.Collection: Rights
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.Collection: Rights
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.Collection: Rights
Citizenship is the right to have rights.Collection: Rights
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.Collection: Rights
Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.Collection: Rights
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch.Collection: Rights
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.Collection: Rights
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.Collection: Rights
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.Collection: Rights
You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.Collection: Rights
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.Collection: Rights
It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislationCollection: Rights
The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.Collection: Rights
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.Collection: Rights
Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.Collection: Rights
We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all American. And if we allow those values, those rights to be rescinded for one group of individuals, then we are essentially opening the door to having all of our rights, all of our privileges rescinded.Collection: Rights
The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.Collection: Rights
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.Collection: Rights
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.Collection: Rights
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.Collection: Rights
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.Collection: Rights