This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, in fact, like exactly the kind of thing we were protesting against, but we thought it was elsewhere. It is not heartening to find that it has come to us.
Nick HarkawayTag: politics security government privacy human-rights anti-terrorism counter-terrorism
We are the children of one creator.
We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.
Tag: life equality human-rights equal equal-rights
It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.
AberjhaniTag: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr syrian-civil-war marvelousmonday-quotes i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
AberjhaniTag: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr black-history-month syrian-civil-war i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
AberjhaniTag: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr syrian-civil-war marvelousmonday-quotes i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.
J.S.B. MorseTag: politics human-rights rights founding-fathers coercion legislation inalienable
It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government. It's illegal to kill someone, unless you're the government. Private organizations can do everything that government can do except for legally break the law.
J.S.B. MorseTag: politics government force human-rights rights libertarian unalienable-rights coercion
Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.
Jordan FlahertyTag: justice law government community waste human-rights fairness resistance equity social-policy public-policy housing
Ah, my dear friend Hassim, seems our paths cross once again, how fortunate for this humble Sheik.” As Abdullah spoke in his usual self deprecating manner I realized that a favor was on the tip of his tongue and that I was about to be offered a quid-pro-quo.
We were sitting crossed legged on large fat pillows with gold fringe. The tent was large with partitions dividing living, sleeping and cooking space. It was made from heavy cotton canvas erected on thick poles in the center giving the structure a peaked circus tent appearance. The women serving us were young, wearing harem pants low on their hips with cropped gauze tops made from sheer silk. Their exposed midriffs were flat and toned, their belly buttons were decorated in precious stones that glittered in the torch light as they moved. They were bare footed with stacks of gold ankle bracelets making the only sound we heard as they kept our glasses filled with fresh sweet tea and our communal serving trays piled high with dates and sugar incrusted sweets of undetermined origin.
Abdullah took no notice of these women, his nonchalance intrigued me as I was obviously having trouble keeping my mind focused on the discussion at hand, this was all part of the Arab way, when it came to negotiation they had no peers.
“So my dear friend, tell me, the region is on fire is there a solution?”
I spoke in a deliberate and flat tone, little emotion just concern, one friend to another.
“We were shocked by the American response in Egypt and Libya, never had we seen them move so fast with such efficiency. The fall of Gadaffi was unexpected and Mubarak’s fate stunned us; he had been a staunch supporter of the US in this region we fully expected the Obama administration to prop him up one more time, as they had done so many times in the past.”
I looked carefully at Abdullah,
Tag: human-rights sex-slavery undercover-intelligence interpol human-trafficking
We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.
Ellen J. BarrierTag: choice freedom democracy speech respect human-rights agree dignity
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