“In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.” WantFirstsPersonsDoePoliticalViewsRightsCampaignsCorporationsAmendmentsFirst AmendmentDisclosurePolitical CampaignFirst Amendment Rights Author:Bernie Sanders
“The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.” IfsYearsGovernmentEvilIndividualBreakRightsInformationProtectBuiltInstitutionsCampaignsCorporationsPrivacyValleysAmendmentsFourthGooglePledgePrivate SectorSiliconSilicon ValleyFourth Amendment Author:Al Franken
“We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.” PeopleHumansEarthThreeNextTermRightsPossibilityPlanetsDecadesCorporations Author:Vandana Shiva
“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
“We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.” IfsHumansRealShowsHappensFacesFictionRightsComputerUltimateScience FictionMonstersScalesCorporationsFriendlyHeritageFrighteningUsurpationFrankenstein's MonsterFriendly Faces Author:Ed Ayres
“Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.” GovernmentRightsConstitutionBillsBoundsChainsCorporationsBill Of Rights Author:L. Neil Smith
“Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.” PersonsFictionRightsCorporationsRights And FreedomsConstitutional Rights Author:Kalle Lasn
“The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.” NeedsPersonsStatesDesireSocialRightsEconomicPolicyToolsIndependentCorporationsAdvancingEconomic PolicyRegulatorsIndependent Person Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.” ThinkingHumansRealPoliticalTermRightsSpeechDeserveProtectionBreathingCorporationsContributionVotingFree Speech Author:Chris Coons
“Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryGovernmentCan DoRightsSeriousProtectTerroristOur CountryCorporationsTelephonesWebsiteFree SocietyNsaTerrorist AttacksConstitutional RightsOrwellianRight To Privacy Author:Bernie Sanders
“The drafting of a legally binding instrument concerning the human rights impacts of the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises has been proposed. Such a treaty or convention should strengthen the United Nations “protect, respect and remedy” framework of the Guiding Principles, which were unanimously endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011.” HumansRightsActivityNegativeImpactHuman RightsCorporationsTransnational Corporations Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism....” PeopleWorldHumansCountryGovernmentFormValuesPracticeDemocracyRightsResourcesHatredThirdsHuman RightsDenyTerrorismHatedCorporationsThird WorldMultinationalsThird World CountriesMultinational Corporations Author:Howard Zinn
“I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.” IndividualGivenRightsCapitalismCorporationsSupporterArdent Author:Gary Hamel
“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
“A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.” HumansEndsRealityFormUsedReligionPoliticsChurchReligiousHuman BeingsCompanyLibertyRightsAchievePolicyExerciseProtectOrganizationSeparationIdeologyCorporationsHobbiesChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious Liberty Author:Samuel Alito
“A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.” PeopleGivingShouldEndsLawGivenInterestViewsRightsExerciseAdvantageCorporationsLegislationPublic Interest Author:William Jennings Bryan
“The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.” HumansCountryPracticeSupportDemocracyRightsStandardsInvestmentClimateIncludingHuman RightsTerrorDenialCorporationsAttractiveEstablishmentRegimesViolationTransnational Corporations Author:Edward S. Herman
“We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.” NeedsRightsSpeechCorporationsAmendmentsFree SpeechLegislatureConstitutional Amendments Author:Hank Johnson
“If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.” IfsCountryStatesBigsGovernmentWould BeSchoolPoorRightsWrittenJudgingTaxesGunConstitutionPropertyTrackAidsStuckIncomeBudgetsCorporationsWelfareAgencyArrogantTroopsReservesGun ControlIncome TaxPrivate PropertyMembershipFederal ReserveForeign CountriesFrugalMeddlingForeign AidNaftaStates RightsAmerican TroopsBig CorporationsFederal Judges Author:Ron Paul
“The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryYoungPoliticalProcessPartyClassRightsShareStudentsCollegeTaxesFairsDemocraticUniversityDebtCorporationsCrushWealthyWorking ClassDemocratic PartyInvolvingTuitionFair ShareColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.” GivingHumansHuman BeingsRightsCourtSupremeAbsurdCorporationsSupreme Court Author:Malachy McCourt