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rights poverty duty
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. Benjamin Disraeli
rights years california
It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s. Busy Philipps
rights people population
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. Jan Egeland
rights champion protect
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi
rights support human-rights
You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general. Brendon Urie
rights gone creation
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. Eldridge Cleaver
rights historical cost
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load. Thomas Sowell
rights feminist categories
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently. Suzanne Vega
rights apples worry
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. Simon Cowell
law broken appearance
The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken. Boss Tweed
law immigration distinction
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. Barbara Jordan
law mind reform
Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive. Bashar al-Assad
law government london
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
law congress-and-the-president effort
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation. Calvin Coolidge
law want masters
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. Brigham Young
law issues people
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff. Bill James
law fire broken
If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law? Charles Spurgeon
law america rights
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God. Dennis Prager
environmental borders border-security
Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere. Ban Ki-moon
environmental issues
Environmental issues have always been important to me. Doug Dacar
environmental earth energy
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs. Ray Kurzweil
environmental world matter
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter. Simone Weil
environmental world poverty
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster. Stewart Brand
environmental sustainability
The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.
environmental climate host
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. Michael E. Mann
environmental flip global-warming
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. Michael Shermer
environmental wilderness harm
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you. John Muir