#rights

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored ↗

— Alice Walker

#communication

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#great #guns #kings #most #respectable

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#animals #death #euthanasia #human-rights #death

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #empowerment #inequality #men #women

However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#women #women-s-rights #education

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#patriotic #political #privacy #rights #security

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#declaration #founders #god #got #government

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. ↗

— Carl Schurz

#blow #cannot #dangerous #highest #identity

I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.' ↗

— Joel Silver

#good #good idea #i #i think #idea