“I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.” ThinkingMenWorldEnoughBornResponsibilityMillionsAliveRightsMinesProudPrivilegeHumbleWitGladBe A ManRights And PrivilegesGlad To Be Alive Book:Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner Source: Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner
“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.” PeopleWorldHumansCountryStatesPoliticalNationsCausesProcessUnitedLibertyMillionsRightsMediaDevelopmentIndependenceConclusionReportsRegionsScholarRecallsLowestUnited NationsPublishCoveringCivil LibertiesHuman DevelopmentAnalystsPolitical Rights Author:Larry Elder
“After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.” TryingTwoShowsLawGoalMillionsRightsFailingCrimeGunUltimateImpactDecadesCampaignsViolentDustOwnersIllegalAmendmentsAbidingSecond AmendmentFirearmsUltimate GoalCrusadesBradyGun OwnersViolent CrimesIllegal Guns Author:Alan Gottlieb
“Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.” PeopleWantJobsLawFightingSocialJusticeMillionsRightsFairsElectionSocial JusticeFundamentalsPressesRussiaLike MeRule Of LawNew JobFree PressFundamental Rights Author:Garry Kasparov
“the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!” PoliticalChurchMillionsRightsConstitutionNotionBritishCraftsEmpiresTwelveFifteenMonopolyBritish EmpireFreemanHocus PocusPageantry Book:Richard Cobden's German Diaries Source: Richard Cobden's German Diaries
“If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenShouldDifferentPhilosophyUseGovernmentEvilIndividualWhiteMillionsRightsStupidProgramMurderAssumingInternationalFavorsDamnGasRepublicGenocideAggressionSocialistInterfereNaziRestraintWhite ManFree MarketScopeChamberThumbsAtheisticAdvocatingIndividual RightsGas Chambers Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.” PeopleMadeLawExistenceMillionsRightsIntellectualShadowPropertyToilProperty RightsLivelihoodIntellectual PropertyVibrancy Author:Alex Kozinski
“For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.” PeopleWellsMadeIdeasLawCultureFunExistenceMillionsRichRightsDependsIntellectualDrawsShadowHollywoodCourtPropertyProfitAppealsOur TimeToilDomainIconsMockProperty RightsCircuitsLivelihoodIntangibleIntellectual PropertyVibrancyPublic Domain Author:Alex Kozinski
“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
“You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.” PeopleWorldBelieveHandsChristianI BelieveMillionsRightsGayDevilTwentiesBlowI Believe InAbortionFrighteningGay RightsEvangelicalHands UpAgainst Abortion Author:Jeanette Winterson
“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
“All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?” PeopleIfsBelieveGoalMillionsDemocracyRightsAchieveAbuseVirtuousRights And Freedoms Author:Kenan Evren
“According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.” YearsMillionsRightsHealthVictimDataHealth CareSensitivePrivacyStolenTheft Author:Luis Gutierrez
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.” MeanWomenSpaceRoomsMillionsRightsWrittenFeminismSolitudeFeministPsychologicalAbortionPrivacyDesertedAbortion Rights Author:Florence King
“July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” PeopleMenWorldCertainThreeNationsLibertyMillionsRightsTheoryEqualIndependentCreatorPursuitHillsRepresentativesHistoricPursuit Of HappinessJulyInalienable RightsBunkersLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessJuly 4LexingtonBunker Hill Author:Calvin Coolidge
“There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.” YearsLittlesStillsCountryDoneChoicesGirlEnjoyMillionsStudyRightsVoteTwentiesSexualityOperationsBrutalDeprivedFreedom Of ChoiceBasic Rights Author:Dacia Maraini
“I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me.” IfsFilmPowerfulMillionsRightsPositionViewersDistributionRealised Author:Franny Armstrong
“We see all around the world where women's rights are denied, where governments don't believe in educating their girls. There are 800 million people in the world who are illiterate and 75 percent of them are women and girls.” PeopleWorldBelieveGovernmentGirlMillionsRightsPercentDon't BelieveAround The WorldDeniedWomens RightsIlliterate Author:Laura Bush
“I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.” KnowsFirstsBelieveMatterUsedMillionsRights Author:Matthew Perry
“I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveHumansI BelievePovertyMillionsRightsEconomicInjusticeHuman RightsScalesAround The WorldAddressesNew WaysEconomic Injustice Author:Pamela Yates
“But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have come to us from cultural groups within which women have absolutely no rights. They do not have a voice of their own and they are totally dependent on their fathers, brothers or husbands. That applies to North Africa and that applies to large parts of the Middle East. It isn't always linked to Islam.” PeopleRunningFatherSpeakVoiceMillionsRightsGroupsMiddleDangerBrotherHusbandIslamEastDecadesDependentMiddle EastLinkedGeneralizationNorth Africa Author:Alice Schwarzer
“Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.” WellsEndsCountryStatesCitiesHalfMillionsRightsDyingCarTaxesMusic IsLosingLaborUniversityPopulationDecadesSellingCivil RightsTrendsDetroitWayneWondrousSociologistsSelling More Author:David Maraniss
“Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.” WantFightingEnergyEnjoyInterestMillionsRightsEqualTwentiesVery GoodSeekingRussiaStableOur RelationshipSyriaEqual RightsStrategicExtremismDisagreementUnifiedTacticalRadicalism Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“Matthew Vaughn phoned me up and he said, "Hey, listen, the movie has just done gangbusters. We've got to do the second one." And I was like, "Matthew, I have no second book. Dave and I haven't done it," and he's like, "You're kidding!" He said, "This movie's just made $420 million!" I was like, "...We've got nothing." So the amazing thing was, because we own the rights, we still get paid and everything, which is fantastic.” MadeSaidStillsBookDoneMillionsRightsHavensLike YouPaidHeyFantasticAmazing ThingsDaveMatthew Author:Mark Millar
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of millions of people, or close to one billion, to be precise. They have been looting, torturing and raping. Even now, they are killing millions directly and tens of millions indirectly.” PeopleHumansHas BeensRealMillionsRightsWestKillingHuman RightsCommittedBillionsPreciseViolationReal HumanLooting Author:Andre Vltchek
“As the elected representatives of the American people, all the people, nearly 300 million people, that we in the Senate are charged with the responsibility to examine whether to entrust their precious rights and liberties to [Supreme Court] nominee.” PeopleResponsibilityLibertyMillionsRightsCourtSupremeSenateRepresentativesSupreme Court Author:Patrick Leahy
“Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.” Would BeMillionsRightsJudgingConcernedWorriedActivistJudicialNominationsRights And Freedoms Author:Dick Durbin