“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.” WayWantShouldMayStillsDoneAbleForgetPrinciplesRightsPrideDemandForgivenessMy FriendsForgivingRefuseQuittingOne WayGuaranteesScarUnspeakableGuarantees That Author:Frederick Buechner
“Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.” YearsStillsWaitingRightsGenerationsAchieveEightAfrican AmericanCompensationRestitution Author:Cynthia McKinney
“While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.” WorldYearsStillsTodayLastsCertainWomenViewsRightsCenturyEnlightenmentHundredOur WorldMentalityWomens RightsInferiorsWorld TodayConditioningNotable Author:Frederick Lenz
“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.” MeanStillsStoriesGovernmentAgeTodayPoliticalFatherIndividualSocialWealthResponsibilityRightsCenturyIdealsRootsBillsDemocraticSubstanceFoundingLicensePolitical SystemsBill Of RightsRobbersGildedGilded AgeRobber Baron Author:Bill Moyers
“It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.” HumansMayHas BeensStillsLibertyRightsOne ThingSucceedHuman RightsAlternativesLapCivil Liberties Book:A fanfare for Prometheus Source: A fanfare for Prometheus
“How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.” StillsNaturalRightsIdleContainingNatural Rights Book:Relations of states: Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi Source: Relations of states: Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi