“For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.” ArtBigsLostFeltRightsEffectsMonthsHusbandUniversityAfghanistanMy SisterGalleryDollsArt Galleries Author:Malina Suliman
“Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.” PleasureForeverRightsEffectsTorturePoisonDisappointUnlawfulHollowness Author:Charlotte Bronte
“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
“Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.” PeopleSelfCoursesIndividualWishRightsEffectsAgreeFundamentalsPropertyLibertarianOwnersOwnershipIdenticalProperty RightsSelf OwnershipOwnership And Control Author:L. Neil Smith
“Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.” PeopleLittlesUseTodayRightsTroubleEffectsGunCriminalsGun ControlSubsidies Author:Sheldon Richman
“Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.” IfsMenHumansStillsIdeasIndividualRightsAchieveEffectsEnlightenmentDignityIslamWesternHuman RightsHeavyContraryDialogueTemporaryIndividual Rights Author:Ilana Mercer
“It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.” IfsTryingDoePlayHappensCareMillionsClearRightsSeeingEffectsSeriousCitizensPoliticianOrdinaryConcernCongressThings HappenOfficialsRelevantInvestigationDocumentsScandalSpyCiaNsaElected OfficialsOrdinary Citizens Author:Edward Snowden
“The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.” GovernmentEvilIndividualCan DoRolesRightsModernEffectsSafetyIndependenceSecureProtestExcessDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceModern SocietyNecessary EvilRole Of Government Author:Gerald R. Ford
“We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.” IfsGivingReasonWould BeUsedRightsEffectsTrustConstitutional Rights Author:Frank Murphy
“Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.” HumansUseLawRightsEffectsHuman RightsLawyerStorytellingRectify Author:Pamela Yates
“The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.” DoeStatesLawHalfAcceptingRightsLandEffectsConceptsInternationalIsraelExpectedAbstractGrantsTerritoryMexicoPalestinianConquestDiplomacyLegitimacyInternational LawExpulsion Author:Noam Chomsky
“The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.” WorldChildrenImportantRightsEffectsMen And WomenAround The WorldRemarkableWomens RightsCascadeWomen Strength Author:Cindy McCain
“I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population ... you know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails.” PeopleKnowsChildrenI CanGovernmentTurnsHouseRightsEffectsCitizensGayMarriedPercentOur ChildrenPopulationStealingPursueYour ChildrenZeroGay PeopleGetting MarriedAmerican CitizensLustfulDebaucheryHedonisticLegal Rights Author:Chris Kluwe
“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.” PeopleHumansStoriesValuesRightsEffectsHuman RightsFollowingAwakeningDramatic Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.” TryingSeemsMotherParentRightsEffectsFineEqualRaisesSurfaceWomens RightsEqual RightsRippleDetrimentalSingle ParentRipple EffectScraping Author:Patricia Arquette