#rights

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

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#book #brighton #chasing #create #decided

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#literacy #education

Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#human-rights #humor #persisting #diet

The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined. ↗

— Gene Baur

#farm-sanctuary #veganism #change

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#children #huge #i #rights #support

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #december #demonstrations

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

#buy #coal #easier #farm #get

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#allow #freedom #i #i think #irresponsible