The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane AddamsTag: humanity society security inequality rights
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassTag: power activism dissent rights radicalism agitation liberties
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. MurrowTag: war bush doctrine rights civil
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
Thomas PaineTag: equality morality ethics secular-ethics secular-morality rights
You have no right to be silenced.
James DeVitaTag: rights
Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude:
Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, freedom and order--the social fabric begins to unravel. The rights explosion of the past three decades has taken us on a rapid descent to a culture without civility, decency, or even that degree of discipline necessary to maintain an advanced industrial civilization. Our cities are cesspools, our urban schools terrorist training camps, our legislatures brothels where rights are sold to the highest electoral bidder.
Tag: freedom individualism rights duties the-twentieth-century
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
Marvin SimkinTag: freedom democracy vote rights paraphrase-gary-strand
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.
Patricia J. WilliamsTag: empowerment law diversity rights
By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.
Karen ArmstrongTag: empowerment law diversity rights
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
AristotleTag: equality society political-philosophy law rights governement equal-rights
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