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rights bills today
Earl Warren It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
rights government people
David Ricardo The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.
rights issues goal
David Henry Hwang . . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.
rights democracy election
Atifete Jahjaga Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.
rights doubt lists
Antonio Tabucchi I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.
rights movement study
David Price What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
rights acting doe
Frederic Bastiat Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?
rights law ideas
Frederic Bastiat It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure them from injury. It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments. Its mission is to prevent the rights of one from interfering with those of another, in any one of these things.
nsa people understanding
Edward Snowden I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.
nsa long able
Edward Snowden All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
nsa rights phones
Edward Snowden Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.
nsa chinese able
Edward Snowden We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.
nsa manipulation terrorism
Edward Snowden These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
nsa names done
Edward Snowden My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.
nsa judging president
Edward Snowden Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President
nsa government-spying infrastructure
Edward Snowden The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.
nsa agency community
Edward Snowden The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.
play done form
Alan Watts To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
play forget notes
Alan Watts You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play who-i-am people
Alan Rickman Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
play interesting people
Alan Rickman I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
play pursuit said
Alan Bennett To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
play scripts film
Alan Bennett There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
play people mouths
Alan Bennett I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
play theatre audience
Alan Ayckbourn Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
play propaganda
Alan Alda I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.