The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblic...
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away.
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations,...
Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all...
Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free.
So the organisation of society on the basis of functions, instead of on the basis of rights, implies three things. It means, first, that proprietary rights shall be maintained when they are accompanie...
Any human being has a fundamental right to fight for their rights, but that (own right) can not include anything that is fundamentally trying to deny others what is their fundamental right.The root of...
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups...
Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence...
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights...
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of the...
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