“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.” PeopleYearsTodayInterestCreativeRightsHeardHundredYears AgoStonesFoundationGermanyJointsAssertionCreative PeoplePioneering Author:Johannes Rau
“While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.” WorldYearsStillsTodayLastsCertainWomenViewsRightsCenturyEnlightenmentHundredOur WorldMentalityWomens RightsInferiorsWorld TodayConditioningNotable Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.” TodayLinesViewsTalkingRightsInformationAmountHundredProgramCodeRelatedFlavorNot TalkingShowing UpDerivativesLinuxUnix Author:Darl McBride
“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.” ThinkingMenYearsMadeTwoCountryEnoughRealityPoliticalValuesIndividualOur LivesRightsAchieveHundredConceptsMade ItOther CountriesFeatsIndividual RightsProdigiousPolitical Thinking Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingYearsMayStillsEnoughBigsSeemsCareLastsSufferingBornRightsTroubleTreeProtectDiseaseHundredSickConstitutionBravePlantPaintTake CareCuresClimbsNo HopePlant A Tree Author:Linda Ellerbee
“one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.” YearsHas BeensTwoPastRightsGenerationsMovementWeaknessHundredDisappearTendenciesWomens RightsOver The PastNew Generation Author:Susan Jacoby
“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.” TwoTogetherFightingHalfGreaterRightsLandGreatnessUnderstoodHundredTreatedFortyAcresSmallness Author:Louis Riel
“We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.” YearsThreeGivenRightsHundredForty Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great help: there are almost two hundred cartoons included in the book, including dozens from the brilliant Bizarro strip.” I CanTwoBookHelpingAnimalRightsSubjectsSeriousHundredIncludingBrilliantAnimal RightsDozenCartoonSerious Subjects Author:Karen Dawn
“For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.” YearsHas BeensLastsStruggleRightsCoupleHundredConstitutionAmendmentsFifthPersonal Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.” WorldYearsStatesAmericaNamesChancePiecesFourRightsWeaponsHundredEightNuclearRussiaAround The WorldDecentNuclear WeaponsWomens RightsSecretarySenatorsLegislationBetter LifeTreatiesAdvocatingSponsors Author:Hillary Clinton
“We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight million dollars a day to the Israeli army that is also violating international law and human rights.” HumansWarLawMillionsRightsWeaponsHundredArmyDollarsInternationalHuman RightsEightCriminalsBillionsIsraeliMillion DollarsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisInternational LawIsraeli Army Author:Jill Stein
“The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."” MenYearsTodayPastStrongChallengesRightsSubjectsCenturyMovementKingsNewsHundredTraditionEnvironmentalProgressivePartnershipGood NewsConquestDominationShiftingOver The Past18th CenturyYear OneProgressive Movement Author:Riane Eisler
“Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.” WayInspirationalHumansMeanRealSpiritLanguageHalfRightsViolenceConflictSolutionsPercentHundredPracticalsDialogueCompromiseWinnerLoserReconciliationDisagreementNon ViolenceHuman Language Author:Dalai Lama