“In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.” PeopleWorldHumansPoliticalVisionRightsTablesWorkersHuman RightsStrikesCelebrateExceptionSustainabilityRepresentativesNormPolitical SystemsNew VisionWorkers Rights Author:Justin Sane
“Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.” PeopleWayHas BeensCountryGovernmentRunningDifficultTakenRightsTypeConstitutionClaimsBillsUnitySuitsInterpretationCommunistCapitalistRepresentativesEmphasisFascistsBill Of RightsRepresentative Government Author:William Powell
“That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.” PeopleLawRightsOughtAuthorityExecutionRepresentativesConsent Author:George Mason
“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
“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
“I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.” PeopleHumansGovernmentEarthRightsHavensAbuseHuman RightsRepresentativesAmbassadorsEmbassy Author:Jimmy Carter
“Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It is a republic with a spiritual foundation characterized by freedom - freedom for the individual and for his society.” MenSpiritualLawIndividualNaturalRightsConstitutionFoundationRepublicRepresentativesNatural LawNatural Rights Book:An enemy hath done this Source: An enemy hath done this
“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
“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.” ImportantCountryStatesHouseLosesBehindsRightsInvolvedGainsOur CountrySeatsRepresentativesWomens RightsLackingLegislatureHouse Of RepresentativesState LegislaturesRedistricting Author:Eleanor Smeal