“Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.” HumansWarPresidentDecisionPiecesRightsExampleClaimsHuman RightsDenyFighterAlsPrisonerConventionsPresident BushAl QaedaTalibanGenevaMistreatmentPrisoner Of WarGeneva Convention Author:John Yoo
“From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."” PeopleBookMatterStatesReadingSexLinesAcceptingChristianityRightsWillingCitizensUnionsIslamDenyHospitalsObscureSermonsHusseinDefiningCoverageAmerican CitizensMind BlowingAudacityChristianity And IslamVisitationSermon On The MountChristian HopeAudacity Of HopeHealth Insurance Coverage Author:Barack Obama
“We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.” GovernmentOpportunityOpinionRightsAuthorityBillsDenyControlledConsentPublic OpinionBill Of RightsCoerceConsent Of The Governed Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.” PeopleHumansWaterRightsPlansFundamentalsDenyElectricityPublic ServicePrivatization Author:Hugo Chavez
“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.” StatesShowsLawProcessCommonNumbersEffortRightsCitizensEqualIncreaseVictimDenyProtectionDuesHonestlyTendenciesInvasionSavageryLynchingDue ProcessEqual ProtectionDue Process Of Law Author:H. L. Mencken
“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 demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.” NamesPrinciplesRightsDemandDeny Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.” PeopleShouldMindHumansHardGovernmentMotivationalLawRightsExpressionBearsInternationalHuman RightsDenyStealingBlockJudgementTortureAspirationFreedom Of ExpressionInternational Law Author:William Hague
“It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.” MenGivingStillsTogetherThreeIndividualLibertyRightsHe ManSacredPropertySlaveFruitBoundsDenyProtectedArbitraryWorth LivingInterferenceBadgesLife Worth Living Author:George Sutherland
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.” HumansOrderExistenceRightsHuman RightsDenyBasic Human Rights Author:Aung San
“One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them.” HumansWould BeRightsOne ThingNormalHuman RightsDenyProtectionDisorderHomosexualImmoralPromotionUnethicalDeviance Author:Ali Sina
“A bear and a deer are both wild animals. We allow the deer to roam in our backyard but we do not give the same right to the bear. It is because the bear is dangerous. Neither the bear nor the deer have rights. We humans give them rights. Taking in account our own security, we give to some animals some rights and deny the same to other animals.” GivingHumansAnimalRightsSecurityDangerousBearsAccountsDenyDeerBackyardsWild Animal Author:Ali Sina
“It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America.” PeopleThinkingWayAmericaRightsCoupleGayEqualDenyCelebrationRight WayEqual RightsUnconstitutional Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.” LostLosesRightsBattleEqualMajorsSlaverySilentDenyHomosexualEqual Rights Author:John Shelby Spong
“There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.” HumansCountryStatesMoralStruggleIssuesRightsVoteConstitutionFellowsHuman RightsDenyCommandRight To VoteMoral IssuesStates RightsVoting Rights Act Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.” PersonsRightsDenyCriticalSuppressing Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.” PeopleHumansCertainRaceRightsRacismNotionHuman RightsDenyEnjoymentColourDescentEthnicityUniversalityRace Ethnicity Author:Irene Khan
“In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.” HumansRealOrderExistenceRightsPrisonHuman RightsDenyDoing RightReal FreedomBasic Human Rights Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?” HumansDoeRealityNumbersRightsMovementConceptsHuman RightsDenyMaterialismDominantRobotsReducingWorldviewUnprecedentedAcademiaNaturalismRights And Freedoms Author:Nancy Pearcey
“I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert me, I have, you know, nothing - and to interfere with the rights of people to believe other religions or to not believe in any religion at all - as long as they mind their own religion - perfectly all right with me...” PeopleKnowsTryingMindBelieveLongRightsDenyInterfere Author:Susan Jacoby
“Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.” IndividualSocialJusticeResponsibilityRightsGroupsSocial JusticeDenyContraryWord Of GodCollectivismNegationIndividual Responsibility Author:Ted Cruz
“It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatures to the treaty and therefore that we can’t deny Iran the rights due to it as a signature of the NPT.” ImportantFactsRightsDenyDuesNuclearObligationIranSpellsTreatiesProliferationProliferation Treaty Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee - and got thrown off of it, by the way, for wanting to deny Richard Nixon his constitutional rights.How does a woman who has become a fixture in northeastern liberal politics find herself in the backwoods of Arkansas?” WorldWayDoeCareersRightsClintonDenyThrownCommitteesWatergateArkansasConstitutional RightsFixtureBackwoods Author:Rush Limbaugh