“As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.” MenLongRightsWrittenRegardShameSlaveHumiliationCharter Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.” ThinkingMayNationsJusticeLibertyRightsWrittenBloodBlueCornersGreat ThingsSwimFlagsPredictionsSereneStripesLiberty And JusticeFlag Day Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913) Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)
“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.” IfsMenShouldMeanLongStillsWould BeRunningTodayLawSocialEnjoyVisionRightsWrittenLandCenturyEqualShould HaveBillsPrivilegeDisasterOfficialsRealisticClothingsDragShelterWomens RightsEqual RightsInadequateBill Of RightsProclamationOverdue Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.” HumansWholeHandsPoliticsPowerRecordsRightsWrittenMankindHuman NatureSacredDivinityVolumeSunbeams Author:Alexander Hamilton
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.” MeanWomenSpaceRoomsMillionsRightsWrittenFeminismSolitudeFeministPsychologicalAbortionPrivacyDesertedAbortion Rights Author:Florence King
“The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.” PeopleFirstsGovernmentMightWantedIndividualLibertyRightsWrittenFieldsTenConstitutionBillsBranchesTouchedExecutivesAmendmentsInterfereFederal GovernmentAdoptedJudicialBill Of RightsCurbIndividual Liberty Author:Hugo Black
“The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.” MenHumansPoliticalEvilReligiousLeaderRightsWrittenIndependenceHuman RightsDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceReligious LeadersBasic Human Rights Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written.” MenUseGovernmentActionIndividualForceEnemyRightsWrittenDangerousVictimBillsThreatProtectionUnlimitedMonopolyBill Of RightsIndividual RightsPhysical Force Author:Ayn Rand
“Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.” BelieveHumansLyingLibertyRightsWrittenUniversalBillsForgottenHuman RightsTerroristDestroyedAlliesBurnedDeclarationBill Of RightsCharterDeclaration Of Human Rights Author:George W. Bush
“I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.” MenEnjoyRightsWrittenLandConditionsImmigrantsPalestinianExileDeprivedLegal Rights Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun
“If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.” IfsCountryStatesBigsGovernmentWould BeSchoolPoorRightsWrittenJudgingTaxesGunConstitutionPropertyTrackAidsStuckIncomeBudgetsCorporationsWelfareAgencyArrogantTroopsReservesGun ControlIncome TaxPrivate PropertyMembershipFederal ReserveForeign CountriesFrugalMeddlingForeign AidNaftaStates RightsAmerican TroopsBig CorporationsFederal Judges Author:Ron Paul
“Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?” ArtistCultureStrongStudyIssuesRightsWrittenExamplePoetFeministGenderActivismNarrativeVisualsNativePerformersDisabilityVeinsPublishTranslationsArtworkEnvironmentalistSpoken WordVisual ArtPhdsTactileReproductive RightsVisual ArtistBraille Author:Deborah Smith
“Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.” PeopleHas BeensLawAbilityRightsWrittenExerciseGunShootingGun ControlAbidingConstitutional RightsOmar Author:Rush Limbaugh
“United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.” PeopleNeedsShouldHumansStatesGovernmentLawValuesUnitedUnited StatesRightsWrittenDeserveHuman RightsTraditionalAcknowledgeNativeProtectedNative AmericanSovereigntyTreatiesState GovernmentAmerican ValuesUnited States Government Author:Leonard Peltier