“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.” WayWantShouldMayStillsDoneAbleForgetPrinciplesRightsPrideDemandForgivenessMy FriendsForgivingRefuseQuittingOne WayGuaranteesScarUnspeakableGuarantees That Author:Frederick Buechner
“If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.” IfsMenHumansCountryMightWould BeAbleViewsRightsDutyFilledActiveContraryStationsDiligenceHarmoniousHuman Society Book:A Practical View of Preferred Christians Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.” FirstsSelfHelpingShowsHandsAbleRightsGenerationsShareSelf HelpWillingReadyCitizensCapacityWeightRegardMereRepublicPassengersGood CitizenSturdy Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?” PeopleShouldChildrenHomeAbleRightsGayShould HaveIncludingGay PeopleLegal Rights Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.” ShouldAbleRightsConstitutionDebatePatriotNsaPatriot ActUnpatriotic Author:Rand Paul
“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.” IfsI CanAbleRightsImagineBirthProtectPreservesPrivacyBirth Control Author:Faye Wattleton
“Gay People can’t do this. Women shouldn’t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you’re attacking my rights.” PeopleAbleRightsGayAttackingGay PeopleRifles Author:Remi Kanazi
“It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.” PeopleYearsLooksAbleSoundIssuesRightsMarriedNewsMy FriendsRidiculousHorribleCivil RightsCaliforniaRacistTapeGay PeopleRidiculous Things Author:Busy Philipps
“Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.” AbleTermRightsLandHusbandDivorceKingdomsProgressiveVikings Author:Gabriel Byrne
“In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.” PeopleIfsMeanAbleAmericaPastLanguageWhiteGoneRightsHavensChangedRacismMonstersCivil RightsErasManifestationRacist Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.” PeopleAbleFightingRights Author:Vladimir Putin
“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.” StatesFactsAblePoliticalForceNationsSocialUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesStruggleRightsInfluenceMovementDevelopmentExerciseIndependentDemocraticSocialismDespiteRevolutionaryContributionTerrificBannerConstituentsProletariatPolitical LifeDemocratic Rights Author:C. L. R. James
“The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.” HumansImportantCharacterAbleLibertyRightsAtheismCrimeRevolutionHuman RightsPositive AtheismScalesWelfareIndifferentStainsIngratitudePaine Author:James Monroe
“Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.” MayHas BeensAbleLawVirtueRightsCrimeLimitsDegreesSacredExtremesInnocence Author:Jean Racine
“I want to be able to get my point across. I respect people expressing their freedoms and their liberties and their rights, but at the same time I'm almost mindful that my freedoms can be other people's downfalls. I don't want to flash my freedoms in your face all the time, especially if they're going to be detrimental. I can get you to understand my point without going overboard, and we're cool.” PeopleIfsWantI CanAbleFacesLibertyRightsYour FaceFlashDownfallDetrimentalOverboardRespect People Author:LeCrae
“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.” PeopleShouldHumansTwoEndsStatesGovernmentAbleOpportunityBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedClassPrinciplesUnited StatesEnvironmentRightsProgressAbuseSouthHuman RightsConvincedEnormousDiscriminationSuperiorsChampionBlack PeopleInferiorsRestraintBasic PrinciplesRacial DiscriminationEquality Of OpportunityBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.” AbleNaturalGrowingRightsTearsOughtDegreesResistanceAcquireUndisputed Author:Polybius
“Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.” HumansWould BeAbleFacesOrderPoorRightsDivineDemandAuthorityUnderstoodDignityWeakHuman RightsFoundersPowerlessWretchedDefenselessHuman Power Author:Alan Keyes
“If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.” IfsPlayAbleRightsFairsReserves Author:William Howard Taft
“Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.” MenAbleEnemyRightsEqualSlaveCompanionDespotsVenus In Furs Author:Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.” MenWarAbleGreaterRightsHonestCivilizationAimCriminalsInsanityHeightScientologyGreater Heights Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.” ThinkingWayStillsAbleTogetherPoliticalSufferingCommunityLosesRightsMovementActivityTragedyCourtTrackFocusedTendenciesCivil RightsCivil Rights MovementCoalitionsCommunity Organizing Author:Barack Obama
“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” IfsHumansAbleFormHumanityAnimalDoubtRightsCreationDevilAbuseTreatedCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsFeathersCousinVegetarianismFurAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveEnslavementVegetarian HealthHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsAnimal LifeHuman FormAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseAnimal KingdomVegan HealthAnimal TestingHuman CrueltyWildlife AnimalsAbused Animals Author:William Ralph Inge
“Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.” YearsAbleThreeRightsGayBillsDecadesPartnersActivistCoveredFrankGay RightsSculptors Author:Jennifer Lopez
“If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.” IfsStatesAbleChurchAnimalUnitedViewsUnited StatesRightsProgressScalesAnimal RightsMosquesLarge ScaleSynagogueAnimal Rights ActivistsAnimal Activist Author:Norm Phelps
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.” ThinkingHas BeensAbleGoalCommunityRightsWonderfulAchieveModelsDeserveStandingActivismMarriage EqualityParagon Author:Jill Stein
“There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow the money and the more you'll be able to see that payments for mineral rights in poor countries actually go to the people who need it, and don't get put into a kleptocrat's pocket. Transparency is terribly important for us.” PeopleWorldNeedsImportantCountryAblePoorRightsRevolutionPocketsPaymentTransparencySweepingMineralsPoor Countries Author:Michael Elliott
“Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.” IfsThinkingMeanAbleIssuesRightsGunHotCompromiseTargetAmendmentsButtonsGun ControlUnwillingSecond Amendment Author:Michael Badnarik