“The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.” TodayAmericaUsedRightsMovementRevolutionProgramCivil RightsCommunismCommunistCivil Rights Movement Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.” IfsMenKindUsedDesireCultureNamesWishVoiceLosesAliveRightsSacrificeHusbandBreathingMusclesSpokesBeatenMen WomenPuppetsSkeletonsBurqaCulture And Religion Author:Malina Suliman
“The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.” UsedFreedomResponsibilityLibertyPowerRightsCitizensFairnessBiasDeprivationArresting Author:Loretta Lynch
“People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.” PeopleThinkingBelieveUsedBeliefRightsEqualBasesAbsolutesEqual Rights Author:Chris Christie
“I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.” ThinkingBelieveUsedRightsGayBehaviorGay Rights Author:Rand Paul
“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.” WorldShouldFirstsHumansImportantStatesAmericaUsedIndividualForceGrowthAbilityUnitedLibertyClassUnited StatesRightsConditionsMilitaryUnderstoodHuman RightsCurrentsProsperitySecureNeglectAssetsStabilityPromotionEntrepreneurialArmed ForcesIndividual LibertyMilitary PowerGlobal Peace Author:Condoleezza Rice
“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.” IfsLooksGovernmentRunningPoliticalUsedWaterDealsRightsLandGunClaimsSlaveFavorsViolentFundGoodsEpisodesTradingSpeculationIndigenousAcquisitionCrookedMineralsOpiumIndigenous PeopleUnsafePayoffTraffickingGenealogyExterminationVouchersBootlegging Author:Michael Parenti
“Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.” WayGivingHumansDoeSoulReasonFactsPainUsedSufferingSpeakLinesAnimalRightsCapacityRemainsPossessionSuperiorsArbitraryDividingPain And SufferingSuperior Intelligence Author:Nathaniel Altman
“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
“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.” IfsMenNeedsKindHandsLawUsedGivenRightsConditionsHe ManDevelopmentHonorEqualLaborHarmonyProfitProtectionFacultyWomens RightsSelect Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.” NeedsHelpingWould BeUsedEnergyRightsPolicyProgramOvercomingTradeFriendlyRevenueLicenseCapsEmissionsStagnationAuctionsEnergy PolicyLicensesEnvironmentally Friendly Author:George Soros
“Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.” ShouldDifferentUseUsedRaceRightsGroupsClaimsPrivilegeDenied Author:Desmond Tutu
“We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.” IfsGivingReasonWould BeUsedRightsEffectsTrustConstitutional Rights Author:Frank Murphy
“I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.” KnowsFirstsBelieveMatterUsedMillionsRights Author:Matthew Perry
“Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.” LongUsedRightsTraditionHarmCivil RightsFilibuster Author:Barack Obama
“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
“Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.” LawUsedRightsConsumersCodePlusCombining Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.” PeopleTodayUsedRightsSpecialEqualDiscriminationCivil RightsUsed To BeTreatmentSpecial TreatmentEqual Treatment Author:Thomas Sowell
“I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.” PeopleWayDifferentGovernmentTodayAmericaUsedVoiceOpinionRightsMassOppositionNoticingSept 11 Author:Ziggy Marley
“Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.” WayShouldHumansHas BeensWarStatesGovernmentUsedNationsUnitedCasesUnited StatesRightsHuman RightsTerrorismTreatmentPrisonerConventionsUnbelievableUnited NationsViolationWar On TerrorReferringWar On Terrorism Author:Shirin Ebadi
“You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.” PeopleKnowsUsedRealizingRightsDrinkingSouthCivil RightsFountainPlumber Author:Andy Kindler
“I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.” UsedGuySpaceClassRightsMetsEqualWorking ClassEqual RightsMacho Author:John Lennon
“I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.” PeopleFactsUsedNightEnjoyRightsClothesAppreciateBarsSmokeRestaurantsSmokingGoing Out Author:Ian Bremmer
“Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.” PeopleWantWritingTwoHomeKidsUsedActingWifeRightsMetsEqualEqual RightsSchoolingAffirmingLife Affirming Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.” FormUsedTermInterestWealthRightsInvestorsIntegrationGlobalisation Author:Noam Chomsky
“Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.” IfsWantGivingFirstsEnoughBigsGovernmentWould BeUsedPowerfulWiseRightsLessonsProtectUnderstoodAbuseForgottenBeing WiseMadison Author:Roger Pilon
“If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.” IfsMenPersonsReasonUseUsedIndividualForceCommonLibertySupportRightsGroupsProtectPropertyIndividualityOrganize Author:Frederic Bastiat
“That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there, the 'human rights' are used to discredit uncomfortable, even 'hostile' governments through countless implants like NGOs.” HumansGovernmentUsedTermRightsPlanetsWestHuman RightsIllUncomfortableHostileDiscreditImplants Author:Andre Vltchek
“[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].” LooksRealSchoolPoliticalUsedClassRightsTaughtHeroCivil RightsSatParksActivistCitizenshipLook At MeLiteracyRosaMontgomeryReal HeroesPolitical Education Author:Marian Wright Edelman