#rig

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#diet #either #even #fail #feds

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#case #choices #especially #heart #individuals

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#every #farthest #fully #granted #right

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. ↗

— Rick Perry

#big government #champions #cleaning #conservatives #desks

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#body #great #notoriety #off #olympics

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#human rights #like #name #people #protect

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. ↗

— James Bovard

#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#doing #fantasy #god #nature #obligated

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#else #happened #i #job #just