#rights

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history. ↗

— Joe Manchin III

#defense #each #every #grab #history

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#deny #human #human rights #humanity #people

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#basic human rights #comfort #concerns #country #dignity

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#civil #custom #force #individual #international

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#consist #derive #future #goods #hold

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#added #any #declaration #doubt #doubts

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Stjepan Mesic

#freedoms #fundamental #global #global terrorism #human

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#biggest #bulwark #bunch #democracy #fall

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#each #enjoy #his #must #order