“We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.” MenWorldWayFeelsI CanSeemsDealsForeverRightsThis WorldDivineHe ManCallingJudgmentLaborPropertyNobleSelfishnessThese DaysAlasIncarnationWondrous Author:Frederick William Robertson
“But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingMightVoiceJusticeRightsGoes OnCallingMoonElusiveMothsBeckoning Author:N. T. Wright
“But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.” ProcessNaturalRightsCallingPropertyPopulationChemicalsProperty RightsRecyclingWorld PopulationOverloaded Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle
“I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.” ThinkingDoneEnoughRightsCallingFeministActiveCivil RightsRacistActivist Author:Bo Burnham
“I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.” PeopleAcceptingRightsAcceptancePoliticianCallingCriticsAwfulAfrican AmericanCall MeFreedom Of Speech Author:Barack Obama