“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHelpingHappensJobsLeftPovertyRightsDespairWorkersFewerProvidingCompetitors Author:Louise Mensch
“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansMightSidesPovertyRightsThis WorldPlanetsResourcesHuman RightsHungryDepressingThere Is HopeBasic Human Rights Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.” PeopleWayPovertyRightsLowsLiftsVulnerabilityWages Author:Winnie Byanyima
“Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.” WellsPovertyRightsDutyPropertyPossessionProperty RightsReal Property Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.” RealHandsOpportunityCausesCommunityResponsibilityPovertyRightsShareCrimeIgnoranceEqualDegreesIncreaseResponsibleGuiltPropertyCommittedSpreadCriminalsInterfereEqual RightsDiscontentDecreaseEqual Opportunity Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.” IfsHeartSoulMatterHomeCareTogetherFightingRealizingPovertyEnvironmentRightsFeminismPlanetsTypeGayRacismClimateWarmTake CareWorking TogetherBetrayGay RightsSave The EnvironmentSave Nature Author:Prince Ea
“There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.” WellsLooksDifferentUseChanceRacePovertyPathIssuesRightsConditionsGayModelsOrganizationAimInstitutionsStrategyVisibleCompetingTransGay RightsAdvocacyGrassroots Author:Dean Spade
“... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.” MenMindIndividualCausesPovertyRightsImmoralCollectivism Author:Andrew Bernstein
“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
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born” CountryInterestBornLibertyPovertyRightsInfluenceDangerSonAmbitionSacredTerrorMotiveMy SonBetrayPosterityDisgraceTransmit Author:George Mason
“Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.” PeopleWayPovertyRightsImpossibleEssentialsExtremesEnjoymentHumaneRights And FreedomsRight To LifeExtreme PovertyHumane Way Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift focus from civil to silver rights were interrupted by his untimely death. He fought ardently for Black rights, but he also recognized financial literacy as the key to an America that was truly free for all people.” PeopleAmericaForceBlackPoorEffortPovertyFocusRightsKeysKingsFinancialCampaignsOrganizedSilverDrsLiteracyPoor PeopleInterruptedLegislatorsFinancial LiteracyUntimely Death Author:John Hope Bryant
“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
“During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.” MadeReasonGovernmentSufferingAttentionResponsibilityPovertyRightsLandPeriodsResourcesEssenceNeglectSovereignTribesTreatiesTime Periods Author:Leonard Peltier
“I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.” PeopleTryingBelieveChildrenStillsImportantTodayI BelieveChanceLevelsPovertyRightsFieldsCivil RightsChances AreI Still BelievePlaying Fields Author:Hillary Clinton