“Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.” ProblemDealsSunRightsExerciseIntellectualPropertyRanBuyingCapitalistProperty RightsLarryIntellectual Property Author:Scott McNealy
“Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.” FeelsCountryFilmCertainDealsToo MuchRightsCitizensPromiseProtectRacismConstitutionUncomfortable Author:Denzel Washington
“The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.” ShouldLittlesMadeCountryLawLanguageDealsRightsDesignJudgingAuthorityRootsConstitutionFundamentalsCourtResistanceVulnerableCategoriesJudiciaryConstitutional LawRedefining Author:Byron White
“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
“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.” IfsLooksGovernmentRunningPoliticalUsedWaterDealsRightsLandGunClaimsSlaveFavorsViolentFundGoodsEpisodesTradingSpeculationIndigenousAcquisitionCrookedMineralsOpiumIndigenous PeopleUnsafePayoffTraffickingGenealogyExterminationVouchersBootlegging Author:Michael Parenti
“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.” Has BeensArtSelfLastsStrongCausesJusticeWalksDealsSecretRightsLandConditionsTaughtFairsWeakMercyUniversalSocial JusticeDuesNeighborIndianConsiderationCourtesyStrong Will Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.” ThinkingWould BeWishDealsRightsFitVoteFolksSensibleWomens Rights Author:Ellen Swallow Richards
“Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.” HumansFactsBodyDesireIndividualDealsRightsIdentityParticularDevelopmentAspectDignityUniversalHuman RightsIntimateAspirationDependentEquationsHuman DignityIndivisibleReproductive Health Author:Babatunde Osotimehin
“There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.” IfsMenShouldHeartBookWould BeActionLawLanguageDealsRightsSocietyCommunicationConscienceAll ThingsAnd LoveCourtGuidesNeighborEvery ManInstructionCommandmentsThyselfJudicialLove Thy NeighborLaw Books Author:Martin Luther
“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.” GivingDoeCharacterActorsDealsRightsImagineTelevisionDemandAgreeSellsNewspapersIncomeAgentsNovelistsMovieSplitsOwnershipPublishersLunaticManuscriptsCartoonistSyndicateLiterary Agents Author:Bill Watterson
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.” PeopleKindWarPoliticalTermDealsRightsHappenedMissingCrimeUncertaintyDisappearanceWar CrimesAllegationsPolitical RightsDetainees Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
“The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I`m wrong, that there`s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment and human rights - promises. But people like you can`t see the actual deal.” PeopleHumansDoneDealsWorryEnvironmentRightsLike YouPromiseWorkersHuman RightsAdministrationBarack Author:Elizabeth Warren
“We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.” SchoolPoliticalDealsPartyRightsBillsPrivacyPolitical PartiesBill Of RightsSchool SystemRight To Privacy Author:William O. Douglas
“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
“In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our way. She heightened the sense of social conscience in the New Deal generally. To her great credit, she was early on the side of the blacks in their fight for civil rights. She had a tendency to participate, which easily oozed over into meddlesomeness.” WayFightingSocialSidesTermResultsDealsRightsConscienceCreditPassingPassingsTendenciesCivil RightsLegacyNot SureHistoricDepositsNew Deal Author:William A. Rusher