#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

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

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. ↗

— Henry Brooke

#faith #his #however #invades #never

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#i #individuals #liberal #mean #prospect

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#american dream #choose #democrats #dream #education

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers