“I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.” HumansFeelingsIssuesRightsLaborVery GoodCivil RightsMixed FeelingsCultural Issues Author:Jello Biafra
“We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.” PeopleMenShouldReasonFeelingsActionLastsPoliticalHellRightsInfluenceMinutesDangerMen And WomenCaliforniaAnticipateConsiderateConstitutional RightsCorpusHabeas CorpusArmed Guards Author:Westbrook Pegler
“The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?” DoeFeelingsIssuesRightsKeysConsciousDeserveArtificial IntelligenceEntity Author:Ray Kurzweil
“A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights.” PersonsFeelingsBodyNaturalRightsMovementSpeechFacultyStrictExtensionsNatural Rights Author:Frank Van Dun
“I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsFeelingsYoungTermRightsGaySuicideTeenagerConfusedBullyingBulliedCommitting Suicide Author:Kevin Spacey
“If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.” IfsFeelsDifferentFeelingsVoiceSituationRightsEqualDeserveLoudGiantsLoud Voices Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.” ThinkingShouldLongPlayFeelingsStrongRolesRightsTablesCivil RightsCardsAll TimeJournalistStrong FeelingCards On The Table Author:Pete Earley
“Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.” ThinkingWayHumansCharacterFactsFeelingsIndividualNationsExistencePrinciplesRightsConditionsParticularProductsEssenceUniversalHistoricalLocalsFeaturesNationalityDistinctive Book:Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy Source: Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
“I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.” WayLongHas BeensFeelingsParentExistenceOpinionRightsLuckyRaisedSo LuckyHarming Others Author:George Clooney
“Not a single time have we gotten our rights from Congress or the President, we get them from God. And when He gives us those rights, He puts a warning bell inside of us. When somebody tries to take them, a warning bell goes off. And that's what America is feeling right now.” GivingTryingFeelingsAmericaPresidentRightsRight NowCongressWarningBells Author:Glenn Beck
“It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.” FeelsHumansLooksHas BeensSoulSelfFeelingsPainTogetherHuman BeingsAnimalConsciousnessSupportRightsEmotionalMoralityEthicsSpeciesObsessionLook UpConsiderationHierarchyDeservingCognitiveLumpsSelf ConsciousnessHuman SpeciesPhysical PainSpeciesismMorality And Ethics Author:Sharon Gannon