“If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.” IfsHas BeensCountryRightsMovementRefuseCivil RightsParksBusHippieCivil Rights MovementNelsonRosaCivil Right Movement Author:Kinky Friedman
“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.” WayWantShouldMayStillsDoneAbleForgetPrinciplesRightsPrideDemandForgivenessMy FriendsForgivingRefuseQuittingOne WayGuaranteesScarUnspeakableGuarantees That Author:Frederick Buechner
“Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.” MenReasonUseWisdomHandsPoliticsEconomyRightsImpossibleDutyAuthorityRefuseObligationGrantedLiberalismVoidRepresentativesCivil SocietyCoerce Book:Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on atheistic communism: official Vatican text Source: Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on atheistic communism: official Vatican text
“From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.” ImportantYoungReligionWomenNaturalRightsCircumstancesFemaleMalesRefuseDeniedPatriarchyNestsViewpointsNatural RightsMatingStuds Author:Barbara G. Walker
“An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.” HumansWarStatesMomentsSeemsHappensNationsUnitedStruggleRightsAll ThingsInstitutionsHuman RightsIraqRefuseTerroristChairsPermitUnited NationsCredibilityDisarmamentLibyaBreathtakingIrresponsibility Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.” IfsWantGovernmentUsedBeliefRightsRefuseUsed To BeThreatenedWant Something Author:Matt Walsh
“I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.” PeopleMenMeanDoeStatesEnoughWholeGovernmentEnjoyCommunityReligiousRightsProtectAccountsConstitutionFaultsRefusePunishmentSentimentsBroadsOfficersInterfereReligious FreedomReligious Rights Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” PeopleShouldGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsRightsBillsRefuseCivil RightsPatrioticEntitledBill Of RightsIndividual RightsInferenceCentral Government Author:Thomas Jefferson