#rights

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#bear #discussion #explanation #man #parity

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. ↗

— John Wooden

#consider #feelings #others #own #rights

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. ↗

— John Wooden

#deny #going #i #opposed #other

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#am #ask #government #happiness #having

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#citizen #congress #consideration #determine #every

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. ↗

— Andrew Young

#civil #civil rights #doing #helping #i

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story. ↗

— Neil Young

#against #called #civil #civil rights #country

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#being #end #human #human being #most