“And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.” KindStatesGovernmentPoliticalPartyRightsFederal GovernmentPolitical PartiesHypocriticalFederalismStates Rights Author:Gary Ackerman
“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.” WritingHas BeensArtEnoughPoliticalPartyRightsIntellectualArt IsPropertyArticlesStolenCocktailsProperty RightsPlagiarismIntellectual PropertyCocktail Parties Author:Michael Heizer
“Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.” ShouldSleepPartyRightsImportanceCourtEquity Author:Frederick Romilly
“If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.” IfsGovernmentSpiritSportsCommunityPartyRightsSubjectsBlessingConstitutionRegardContraryPermanentToneAcquireProductiveArbitraryDistractedFactionsFrivolousPretextVicissitudesContendingSlighted Author:Alexander Hamilton
“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.” WorldSeemsMightPoliticalPartyCasesRightsBloodShareRevolutionFortuneViolentCuriousEnjoyedAshamedDeniedDelicateTriflesPolitical LifePolitical Rights Author:Alice Meynell
“Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.” MeanTwoStatesTodayLawPartyPrinciplesRightsFitCommitmentAreasMeaningfulAssumptionAmendmentsRule Of LawReservedStates Rights Author:Barry Goldwater
“The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.” FeelsMightPoliticalPartyRaceResponsibilityPrinciplesSupportTakenRightsGroupsColorCitizensRepublicanEqualTraditionAccountsConstitutionPopulationDiscriminationCivil RightsAfrican AmericanGuaranteesQuartersSuggestionsRepublican PartyMaintainingEqual RightsOathPolitical Rights Author:Calvin Coolidge
“[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.” MenBelieveDoeReasonGovernmentHateUnderstandingInterestCommunityPartyRightsMankindRepublicanCapableDoctrineAppealsInsultRepublican PartyOffendedGoverningOutrageHereditary Book:1829-1836 Source: 1829-1836
“Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.” TryingSeemsTodayPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyDemocracyIssuesRightsPolicyRepublicanEqualEthicsVoteStrategyDemocratIdeologyGuaranteesVotingFree SpeechPolitical PartiesEqual RightsPartisansRight To VotePartisanship Author:Donna Brazile
“But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.” HumansSelfTodayFreedomPartyDemocracyRightsExpressionCostHuman RightsSignificantCensorshipFreedom Of ExpressionDemocracy FreedomSelf Censorship Author:Phil Robertson
“Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.” YearsEnoughShowsLastsPoliticalVoiceCommunityPartyStruggleRightsRepublicanPaperEmbraceCivil RightsAfrican AmericanCentsSixtyLegislationRepublican PartySeventiesNinety Author:Michael Steele
“There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.” SpeakJusticePoorPartyClassStruggleRightsEconomicMiddleConcernDemocraticMiddle ClassOur SocietyAgendasDemocratic PartyMarginalizedEconomic Justice Author:Mike McCurry
“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.” GivingSelfTodayPartyExistenceRightsDependsCapitalismOrganizationWorkersChineseEnterpriseLabourCommunistCapitalistDominationCommunist Party Author:Jacques Ranciere
“There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.” CountryPoliticalPartyMoralFourRightsClaimsPropertyTrialsGuiltyBrandsCharacteristicsCensorshipExecutionDictatorshipOffenseSovereigntyOutrageMockPrivate PropertyOutlawPrerogativeForfeit Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader