“That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.” PeopleHumansHappensTodayLawSufferingBlackLibertyRightsCitizensConstitutionFellowsFoundationInjusticeHuman RightsAccidentsProofFlagsSheerDescendantsAdvocacyFramed Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the foundation stones upon which this nation and its free enterprise system has been built and has prospered. We feel that private property rights and human rights are inseparable and indivisible. Only in those nations that guarantee the right of ownership of private property as basic and sacred under their law is there any recognition of human rights.” FeelsHumansHas BeensWisdomLawPoliticsNationsEconomyRightsCitizensBuiltStonesFoundationSacredPropertyHuman RightsPrivilegeRecognitionLiberalismGuaranteesEnterpriseOwnershipInseparablePrivate PropertyProperty RightsAmerican CitizensFree EnterpriseIndivisible Author:John Rarick
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.” MayWarRealityAmericaFatherPoliticsProcessCommunityJusticeHistoryTechnologyDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyCitizensBattleEqualEthicsConstitutionHuman RightsTerrorismDuesArguingTrialsCommitIdeologyEngagedFree SpeechPenaltiesMaximumEqual RightsDeath PenaltyBattlefieldsTreasonDespicableConvictsDue Process Author:Rand Paul
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.” PeopleWorldWayLifeHumansFoundReligiousFreedomRightsCitizensCircumstancesProtectTreatsBlessedHuman RightsAround The WorldHelplessPersecutionReligious FreedomDeprivation Author:Jimmy Carter
“We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human Rights Commissions. It's a bounty system where the prizes are business owner's heads. And so as restaurants go broke, tourists get stabbed. That's human rights in New York. And perhaps America.” HumansAmericaOrderPayRightsNew YorkFineCitizensHuman RightsBrokeRestaurantsOwnersPrizeCyclesGreedySalaryTouristsBountyBusiness Owners Author:Greg Gutfeld
“The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.” HumansHandsCommunityDestinyRightsCitizensHuman RightsOur Community Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.” WorldWantHumansCareJobsSocialWalksWatchesDemocracyRightsStreetsSecurityTelevisionBuildingCitizensPaperHuman RightsHealth CareBritainInvitesPapersSocial SecurityPensionGreat BritainVenezuelaTrue Democracy Author:Hugo Chavez
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.” IfsWantShouldBelieveHumansStatesLawIndividualLeftPowerfulPartyRightsChangedCitizensRootsHuman RightsAgendasRelevantRegulationCiviliansSpectrumPirateCopyrightSwedenCyberNanniesCopyright LawDraconian Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.” MenWorldGivingHumansTwoCountryTodayWhiteAttitudeLeaderMillionsRightsCitizensTwentiesHuman RightsNervesWhite ManAudacityFree WorldTwenty TwoBasic Human Rights Author:Malcolm X
“The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.” HumansUnderstandingResponsibilityRightsExpressionCitizensHuman RightsIndividualityFreedom Of ExpressionBasic Human RightsRights And Responsibilities Author:Ai Weiwei
“Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.” IfsShouldHumansLongStatesTodayPastIndividualRightsCitizensConceptsHuman RightsSeekingProtectionNobleCivil RightsDenialPermitExploitationBetrayedSlogansForefathersStates Rights Author:Robert Kennedy