“A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.” PeopleYearsTodayInterestCreativeRightsHeardHundredYears AgoStonesFoundationGermanyJointsAssertionCreative PeoplePioneering Author:Johannes Rau
“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.” HumansAgeTogetherTermCommonResponsibilityWonderDemocracyRightsHappenedHeardSacrificeMovementConceptsIdealsObligationWillingnessCommon GoodPersonal Sacrifice Author:John Rosemond
“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.” PeopleMenDoneYoungOrderFightingHalfRightsHeardFashionYouthHe ManClaimsRidiculousSettingObligationSettingsComicGreekMaturityLatterShyPhenomenonPlatformsFulfilmentDisgraceful Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.” ChoicesLanguageSoundRightsHeardMissingCourtCaringAbortionSupporterVocabularyAmbivalent Author:Ellen Goodman
“You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsHeartMadeSoulHappensGamesBoysMillionsRightsHappenedHeardOfficeSellsBoardsMonopolyHeart And SoulBoard GamesSpecs Author:Robert Ben Garant
“I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.” PeopleSaidCountryNationsReligiousRightsHeardSonBearsGloryConstitutionOriginalsProtectionCivil RightsOur CountryProphetPurityThreadJoseph SmithZionReligious Rights Author:Eliza R. Snow
“I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.” PeopleMemoriesStruggleRightsHeardMiddleMovementEastCivil RightsMiddle EastDictatorshipCivil Rights MovementMost Inspiring Author:Peter Beinart
“When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.” SchoolLawRightsHeardCivil RightsLaw School Author:Constance Baker Motley
“Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” GovernmentForceJusticePartyLibertyRightsHeardCitizensConflictDecidedMajoritySuperiorsVirtuousMinorsComplaintsRivalsUnstableConsideratePublic GoodDisregardedPersonal LibertyOverbearingConsiderate And Caring Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.” HumansRealPoliticalSocialVoiceRightsGenerationsHeardEconomicEmotionalConflictConsequenceDestructionTragedyHuman RightsIraqTraumaHumanitarianPostsZoneInsecuritySyriaAnguishPakistanPalestineArenaMarginalizationEmotional Trauma Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.” HumansVoiceRightsHeardHuman Rights Author:Queen Noor of Jordan