“EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.” EndsChoicesFightingRightsProudMembersTreatsDemocraticCommittedListsHonestlyCandidatesBargainsEmilyBlancheEmily's Author:Ellen Malcolm
“Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansChildrenCountryDoneRightsJudgingCourtHuman RightsCommittedProvenSevereViolationAbusersInvestigatingSidingCourt Judges Author:Lundy Bancroft
“You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenGivingFeelsShouldYearsMeanHas BeensTwoCountryTogetherSupportRightsShareCoupleGayMarriedCommittedUpsetStayingSoleQualifiedGay MarriageBeing MarriedGatekeepersStaying Together Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we highlight equality for girls and women - not just women's rights. That is important as girls, especially adolescent girls, have been almost invisible in debates on equal rights. Yet it is in adolescence that events can have a huge effect on a girl's life.” HumansHas BeensImportantGirlHuman BeingsPrinciplesRightsEffectsEventsHugeEqualCommittedDebateInvisibleWomens RightsAdolescenceEldersEqual RightsHighlights Author:Mary Robinson
“The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.” GivingMayCountryDoneLawRightsSubjectsProtectEnglandCommittedBritishRemedyGrievance Author:Bayley
“Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.” DoeRealityCausesAnswersRightsViolenceAtheismConscienceCommittedPositive AtheismPersecutionCompulsionEnlighteningLiteralStirringSupposing Book:A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: Source: A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:
“Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.” IfsTryingLooksKindPhilosophyShowsGivenViewsRightsOne ThingWillingEqualArgumentCommittedPoint Of ViewGuiltyEqual RightsInconsistentFlourishingInconsistencyIncoherence Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.” MenHumansDifferentCareSexDifferencesHuman BeingsResponsibilityMoralRightsTalentDutyMoralityDiversityRelationCommittedVariousDoctrineErasNothingnessSummitInsignificanceGifts And TalentsDifferent ErasRights And Responsibilities Author:Angelina Grimke
“Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us.” KnowsActionPoliticalFightingCausesRightsFeminismGayAngryCommittedFeministSecureProgressiveFrustratedPolitical ActionVanguard Author:Irena Klepfisz
“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.” RealHandsOpportunityCausesCommunityResponsibilityPovertyRightsShareCrimeIgnoranceEqualDegreesIncreaseResponsibleGuiltPropertyCommittedSpreadCriminalsInterfereEqual RightsDiscontentDecreaseEqual Opportunity Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.” EndsJusticeRightsViolenceCommittedDefenseJustifyAffirmationContinuationActs Of Violence Author:Wendell Berry
“My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.” TryingHumorFunnyRightsFrontsPoliceSuicideCommittedCivil RightsGrandmotherBusGreat Grandmother Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.” PeopleFormIndividualCommunityReligiousEffortLibertyRightsBuildingConcernConcernedCatholicCommittedDiscriminationUnjustGood WillRejectingReligious LibertySafeguarding Author:Pope Francis
“The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.” MenStillsImportantEasyStruggleGreaterRightsAchieveDangerCostClaimsCommittedPeacefulProtestMarchHope For The FutureTurbulence Book:RFK: collected speeches Source: RFK: collected speeches
“Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.” KindHelpingRunningWantedTermChurchReligiousRightsStudentsCollegeSummerProgramTestsUniversityCommittedJewCivil RightsChicagoRelevantAdsEnergeticCampusKansasOrganizerCollege StudentsPresbyteriansCollege Campus Author:Sara Paretsky
“Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of millions of people, or close to one billion, to be precise. They have been looting, torturing and raping. Even now, they are killing millions directly and tens of millions indirectly.” PeopleHumansHas BeensRealMillionsRightsWestKillingHuman RightsCommittedBillionsPreciseViolationReal HumanLooting Author:Andre Vltchek