Quotes About Rights

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

There are laws in this country to protect everyone and that includes the Jewish community.

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.

The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land.

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

I want to crack jokes about people. That is my right.

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As the political scientist Barry Weingast has noted, a state strong enough to enforce property rights can also take them away.6 On

Hoje em dia, (…) chegámos a um ponto em que os cidadãos se distraem com as teorias conspirativas mais bizarras sobre o modo como o governo está a ser manipulado por elites obscuras para lhes retirar os seus direitos, e armam-se em antecipação do momento em que terão de se defender do Estado pela força.

At the time of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, only white males with property had full political rights; the circle of rights bearers gradually expanded to include white men without property, African-Americans, indigenous people, and women.

modern thought has arrived at an impasse, unable to come to a consensus on what constitutes man and his specific dignity, and consequently unable to define the rights of man.

The rule of law is critical for economic development; without clear property rights and contract enforcement, it is difficult for businesses to break out of small circles of trust.

They squared this circle by creating a set of usufructuary (usage) rights that could be bought, sold, mortgaged, or transferred, in which the state nonetheless retained formal ownership.

In democratic societies we assert, with the American Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal." Yet historically, we have disagreed on who qualifies as "all men." At the time that the declaration was signed, this circle did not include white men without property, black slaves, indigenous Americans, or women.

This seemingly minor point is in fact important in distinguishing Chinese and Western legal concepts: the latter see natural persons as bearers of rights and duties independently of any action of the state, whereas in China citizenship is something conferred on individuals by the state.

Liberal democracy is built around the rights given to individuals who are equal in their freedom, that is, who have an equal degree of choice and agency in determining their collective political lives.

The resulting Rechtsstaat has been described as a liberal autocracy. It provided strong protections of the rights of its citizens in an impersonal manner, even though these citizens did not have the political right to hold their rulers accountable through elections.

Many of the failures attributed to democracy are in fact failures of state administrations that are unable to deliver on the promises made by newly elected democratic politicians to voters who want not just their political rights but good government as well.