#rights

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#anything #does #duties #longer #modern

While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems in pursuing equal opportunity in education and employment, reproductive freedom, the military, and violence against women. ↗

— David E. Wilkins

#supreme-court #violence #women-s-rights #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

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#armed #beyond #direct #human-rights #interests

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#does #equal #equal rights #intelligent #men

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#beyond #black #carry #citizens #civil

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil rights #had #king #leader

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#civil #civil rights #color #guaranteed #his

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#benefit #bring #championing #children #how