This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.
Missy LyonsTags: womens-rights rights nation female dark-ages equal-treatment
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
Sojourner TruthThe condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oFor the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. This legacy, substantially unchanged, has been the object of a continual critical reappropriation and reinterpretation. Up to this very day there is no alternative to it. And in light of the current challenges of a post-national constellation, we must draw sustenance now, as in the past, from this substance. Everything else is idle postmodern talk.
Jürgen HabermasTags: politics freedom justice christianity rights postmodernism
I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.
Jay WoodmanTags: rights rights-of-man defender
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Tags: books free-speech offense rights freespeech
You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.
Anthony LiccioneTags: society change individualism opposition beliefs rock rights
Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.
-Aras
Tags: rights responsibilities wess-har aras
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.
Rudolf RockerTags: freedom struggle government rights despotism privileges
If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
Émilie du ChâteletTags: science women math voltaire rights engineering computer-programming passonate-minds
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