“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.” HumansRightsEconomicHugeStructureHuman RightsTerrorismInequalityUnfairRepressionAssassinationEconomic InequalityHuman Rights Day Author:Pope Francis
“The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out of kindness. These rights were fought for by many highly evolved women who cared about the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.” GivingWomenAttitudeKindnessRightsChangedEnlightenmentDaughterStructureMalesEstablishmentGranddaughterDaughter And Granddaughter Author:Frederick Lenz
“Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.” HumansMeanRightsEconomicBuiltAbuseStructureWestHuman RightsTyrannyOppressionGlobalization Author:Jeremy Seabrook
“Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.” WorldShouldHumansMayPhilosophyMightPastPoliticalStruggleDemocracyFourRightsCenturyTheoryStructureHuman RightsVainHumanistStemConstructsComfortingPolitical PhilosophyPrescriptionsCrudeHeirsSupremacyDeterminismPersonal FreedomTerritorialBourbonCredoMaritimePragmatistsBonaparte Book:Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World Source: Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World
“To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down that power structure, does not mean the end of all social order. It should ultimately mean more justice, more local control, more democracy, and more human rights, not less.” ShouldHumansMeanDoeEndsOrderSocialJusticeDemocracyClearRightsCivilizationOrganizationStructureHuman RightsLocalsSocial Order Author:Derrick Jensen
“We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.” ThinkingWorldFeelsBelieveHumansWarHandsAnimalRightsGroupsMembersRacismUniversalStructureHuman RightsSmall GroupsCooperatives Author:Frans de Waal
“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.” WayWellsKindDesireOpportunityLanguageLevelsRightsRevolutionEqualTransformationStructureStartingConnectedIdeologyEmpiresComing OutRegimesEqual RightsAmerican RevolutionEmergenceFrench RevolutionPlantations Author:Laurent Dubois