“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.” ShouldDesireResponsibilityClearEnvironmentRightsCoupleObligationCivil RightsCorporateCorporationsFairnessAmbiguityUnanimityCorporate Responsibility Author:Leo Hindery
“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.” MenGovernmentFormBusinessRightsDutyHarmonyInstitutionsPropertyPrivilegeLimitationCorporateCorporationsContractsTruthfulRepresentationProperty Rights Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.” WellsGovernmentAmericaIssuesRightsSeeingHugeLosingWorriedCorporatePrivacyInvasionCorporate AmericaInvasion Of Privacy Author:Bernie Sanders
“Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.” KnowsWorldHumansCountryStatesAmericaSpeakDemocracyRightsMediaArmsNewsIndependentWingsHuman RightsCurrentsDoctrineCorporateFairnessCredibilityRight WingConsolidationIndependent Media Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.” CultureCommonRightsMediaProtectProfitCorporateMonopolyCopyrightWholesalePrivatizationCommon Culture Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.” YearsFirstsPersonsNationsUnitedRightsCitizensSpeechCourtDefinedCorporateCorporationsAmendmentsFree SpeechRulingFirst AmendmentTakeoversCitizens United Author:John Bonifaz
“I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.” BelieveCareI BelieveTakenRightsEthicsCapitalismGreedCorporateConsiderationReplaced Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well, now it is a threat. Now it is a terrorist hotbed. The fiction is now reality. And now we have to deal with it. It was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn't about human rights. It's not about human rights.” HumansWellsWarWholeRealityLyingDealsFictionRightsThreatHuman RightsIraqOilTerroristCorporateTakeovers Author:Janeane Garofalo
“The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.” TryingHas BeensStatesStoriesLawBehindsRightsBillsConsumersCorporateClassicAssociationSenateLots Of MoneyVersusGroceriesLabelingMoney And PowerLobbyingGoliath Author:Zoe Lister-Jones