“It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.” IfsWorldHumansChildrenRealityFormValuesNationsRightsShapesBasesNotionHuman RightsCommunicateGuidesToleranceTranslateEquityFamily Life Author:Kofi Annan
“The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.” BelieveHumansMayWarRealRealityRightsHuman RightsIraqTerrorOccasionsLive ByRegimesRemedyDisagreeable Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.” DoeRealityCausesAnswersRightsViolenceAtheismConscienceCommittedPositive AtheismPersecutionCompulsionEnlighteningLiteralStirringSupposing Book:A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: Source: A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:
“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.” ThinkingMenYearsMadeTwoCountryEnoughRealityPoliticalValuesIndividualOur LivesRightsAchieveHundredConceptsMade ItOther CountriesFeatsIndividual RightsProdigiousPolitical Thinking Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too. Oppression doesn't exist in Islam. And in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.” PeopleMenShouldMeanRealityLawDecisionRightsDevelopmentEqualMen And WomenInterpretationEqual RightsMean Man Author:Yousef Saanei
“Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.” HumansCountryRealityRightsDemocraticHuman RightsProtectionGrantedEnjoymentAccusedDefendersUnpatrioticWhistleblowers Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.” ThinkingWorldFeelsShouldRealitySufferingCoursesRightsThis WorldStudentsJudgingConceptsContactPerceiveSolidarityOppressedFormationDisadvantaged Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach
“We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.” NeedsHumansRealityGirlOpportunityPayRightsEqualHuman RightsWomens RightsEqual OpportunityEqual Pay Author:Hillary Clinton
“Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.” PeopleFeelsShouldHumansKindHas BeensStatesRealityFormSufferingPassionHuman BeingsLove IsKnownRightsMadnessFellowsMadGladLustFlamesHeatRemarkableSlipsNeverthelessBeing In LoveDistortionSufferersLunacy Author:Julian Fellowes
“Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.” Has BeensRealityFoundPoliticsJusticeHistoryDemocracyRightsGenerationsPolicyEqualEthicsConstitutionElectionHistoricalMereHuman RightsContraryDiscriminationIdeologyVotingCyclesTexasEqual RightsViolationDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceRight To VotePartisanshipRacial DiscriminationArtifactsVoting Rights ActRedistricting Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.” HumansWisdomRealityPastPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryRightsProgressGenerationsPolicyParticularDevelopmentLessonsEqualEthicsStrategyUnityHuman RightsGenderIdeologyEqual RightsGender EqualityHuman DevelopmentReproductive HealthSafeguarding Author:Hillary Clinton
“A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.” HumansEndsRealityFormUsedReligionPoliticsChurchReligiousHuman BeingsCompanyLibertyRightsAchievePolicyExerciseProtectOrganizationSeparationIdeologyCorporationsHobbiesChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious Liberty Author:Samuel Alito
“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.” PeopleHumansRealityCultureProcessRightsStandardsAimHuman RightsSettingSettingsEvolveAbstractLiving Reality Author:Mary Robinson
“The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.” LifeShouldHumansSaidBookCountryRealityFormDarkRightsCrimeStandardsInternationalHuman RightsReputationTortureShamefulDisregardJudicialSingaporeRecourseDark DaysJudicial SystemMisdemeanors Author:Phil Robertson
“We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.” ThinkingSelfRealityGovernmentRunningFormLawLostNationsEnjoyOpinionRightsJudgingElectionSubstanceHandfulSelf-governmentPersonal Opinions Author:Charles Colson
“Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.” HumansRealityValuesForcePowerfulRightsBehaviorUnderstoodTransformationHuman RightsDefinedManifestationSpontaneousNorm Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well, now it is a threat. Now it is a terrorist hotbed. The fiction is now reality. And now we have to deal with it. It was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn't about human rights. It's not about human rights.” HumansWellsWarWholeRealityLyingDealsFictionRightsThreatHuman RightsIraqOilTerroristCorporateTakeovers Author:Janeane Garofalo
“There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?” HumansDoeRealityNumbersRightsMovementConceptsHuman RightsDenyMaterialismDominantRobotsReducingWorldviewUnprecedentedAcademiaNaturalismRights And Freedoms Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.” WorldHumansShowsRealityGovernmentAmericaRightsTeamPoliceHuman RightsReality Of LifeInterviewsKoreaViolationNorth KoreaTeam America Author:Jennifer Armintrout