But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
George Bernard ShawTags: liberty freedom morals rights
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille BallTags: politics freedom rights communist citizen national-heritage
Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies.
Sonya Renee TaylorTags: politics men women war feminism rights rapists
تذكروا أنكم أبناء من خضعت ... لسيفهم دول الرومان و العجم
و الشرق دان لهم و الغرب دان لهم ... و تحت أخمصهم كم طأطأت قمم
سل أرض ” أندلس ” إن كنت تجهلنا ... و أهل أندلس عنا بما علموا
آثارنا باقيات في مرابعهم ... و علمنا ناطق و الفضل و الشيم
أن يزعموا أننا لسنا نماثلهم ... في كل مكرمة – يا كذب ما زعموا
تنبهوا و انهضوا فالحق مهتضم ... من نام عن حقه أودى به العدمُ
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
Louis L'AmourFolks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
Louis L'AmourTags: rights
People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.
Louis L'AmourWell, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.
Frank ZappaTags: morality smoking rights minorities
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
Carl SaganTags: science education humanity society democracy skepticism rights
For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes that in each person is the Creator’s image and that everyone who tramples it offends God. As holy defender of God’s rights and of his images, the church must cry out. It takes as spittle in its face, as lashes on its back, as the cross in its passion, all that human beings suffer, even though they be unbelievers. They suffer as God’s images. There is no dichotomy between man and God’s image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being abuses God’s image, and the church takes as its own that cross, that martyrdom.
Oscar A. RomeroTags: god church cross christian-living martyrdom rights abuse
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