“We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.” IfsHumansRealShowsHappensFacesFictionRightsComputerUltimateScience FictionMonstersScalesCorporationsFriendlyHeritageFrighteningUsurpationFrankenstein's MonsterFriendly Faces Author:Ed Ayres
“People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.” PeopleKindIdeasRightsComfortableAbsolutesScalesInstanceEnjoyedOfficialsHypocrisyNumb Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
“The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.” HumansImportantCharacterAbleLibertyRightsAtheismCrimeRevolutionHuman RightsPositive AtheismScalesWelfareIndifferentStainsIngratitudePaine Author:James Monroe
“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 examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.” MenImportantIdeasDifferentHelpingStoriesValuesCultureRightsExampleEqualMen And WomenFemaleTraditionRootsDemocraticSpreadGenderScalesEqual RightsGender EqualityDifferent CulturesImplementationSuccess StoriesDemocratic Values Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.” MenJusticeRaceRightsConditionsColorEternalPrejudiceCalmScalesGoldenDustShakesBalancedCastes Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.” WayGovernmentIndividualEnjoyRoomsRightsConstitutionScalesMinimumIndividual RightsWartime Author:Antonin Scalia
“It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.” IfsWorldWellsHas BeensWarStatesHumanityUnitedUnited StatesDoubtRightsTerribleSceneProveAbusePreparedWestChinaEastScalesRussiaWitnessPermanentVietnamRegimesContinuingDistressingCambodia Author:Frederick Forsyth
“George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.” HumansLawLibertyRightsWalkingInternationalHuman RightsScalesObligationAdministrationConventionsAssaultRule Of LawTreatiesCivil LibertiesWalking AwayProtocol Author:Bianca Jagger
“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.” WellsKindDifferentWholeTodayResponsibilityDemocracyRightsSeeingCapitalismResourcesAbsolutesPropertyScalesAccountabilitySustainabilityPhasesExpansionInconsistentAbsolute Freedom Author:Vandana Shiva
“If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.” IfsStatesAbleChurchAnimalUnitedViewsUnited StatesRightsProgressScalesAnimal RightsMosquesLarge ScaleSynagogueAnimal Rights ActivistsAnimal Activist Author:Norm Phelps