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.
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in ter...
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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...
You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection...