#rights

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#essential #extreme #extreme poverty #freedoms #humane

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#dramatic #education #effects #following #human

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#any #foot #i #i am #inferior

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#everything #finds #guy #market #name

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power! ↗

— Jennifer Worth

#women-s-rights #equality

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash. ↗

— Rick Allen

#crash #i #lot #rights #should

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. ↗

— Tom Allen

#both #civil #civil rights #laws #protect