#right

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil. ↗

— William Cullen Bryant

#justice #labor #rights #unions #imagination

To-day, in more than half of Europe, man is at the mercy of the police; in 1900 even the most conservative and reactionary Prussian Junker would have been unable to imagine, let alone approve, that a citizen could be arrested and kept in prision at the pleasure of the Government. ↗

— Salvador de Madariaga

#imagination

We are what we believe we are! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#bright #inspirational #truth #inspirational

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#praise #right #inspirational

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ↗

— John Cage

#i #ideas #new #new ideas #old

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#been #caught #consequences #done #even

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#come #down #even #how #language

It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#inspirational #lesbian #lgbt-rights #inspirational

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arabs #authority #compatriots #east #including

The sky is the limit when you put your mind to the test. ↗