War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.
The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.
Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.
On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
