Quotes having the keyword Rights
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
by Roger Wicker (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: act, civil, concerns, constitutional, facts, infringe, libertarians, patriot, provisions, raised, rights, some, supported , those At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: actively, against, cultural, defending, human, islamic, matter, must, point, radical, realize, recognized, relativity, rights, some, teachings , universally Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: abuse, action, animate, any, basic, believers, betrays, contempt, democracy, democratic, fanatics, free, give, hand, human, longer, meaning, murder, non, religious, rights, societies, such , which Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.
by Charles E. Wilson (Businessman, American , born in 1886) keywords: any, bargaining, benefit, cannot, consent, employers, improve, many, more, plans, raise, realize, reduce, rights, than, them, union, unions, wages, where , without The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.
by Charles E. Wilson (Businessman, American , born in 1886) keywords: advantage, agreement, approach, bargaining, clarifies, collective, concerned, establishes, only, operates, out, parties, principles, responsibilities, rights, sound , work If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
by James Q. Wilson (Politician, American , born in 1931) keywords: assumption, been, before, court, done, gone, opinion, possible, powers, public, radical, rights, states, support, supreme , would The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
by Pete Wilson (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: access, amendment, available, cloak, constitutional, does, first, freedom, general, guarantee, information, inmate, nor, press, public, right, rights, special , speech If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: abstract, bear, discussion, explanation, man, parity, reasoning, rights, same, shrink, test, those, will , women Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
by Diane Wood (Judge, American , born in 1950) keywords: any, bill, careless, chose, constitution, document, framers, james, lecture, madison, named, neither, nor, oblivious, other, otherwise, rights, unaware, were, whom , words I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
by Victoria Woodhull (Activist, American , born in 1838) keywords: accountable, am, ask, government, happiness, having, pursue, rights, voice , which How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
by Frances Wright (Writer, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: any, equal, equality, exercise, genius, how, instruction, inventive, just, knowledge, mean, men, mental, powers, rights, secured, talent, those, understand , without I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
by Boris Yeltsin (Statesman, Russian , born in 1931) keywords: affairs, another, calls, defending, even, freedoms, human, humanitarian, idea, intervention, made, new, pretext, refer, rights, state , under Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
by Andrew Young (Clergyman, American , born in 1932) keywords: been, civil, doing, helping, involved, leaders, life, poor , rights This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
by Neil Young (Musician, Canadian , born in 1945) keywords: act, against, called, civil, country, defend, four-year, lot, our, patriot, rights, story, terrorism, thing, through , which The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.
by Jose Luis Rodr’guez Zapatero (Statesman, Spanish , born in 1960) keywords: citizens, counting, cultural, depends, economic, having, more, nation, progress, rights , social The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.
by Jiang Zemin (Leader, Chinese , born in 1917) keywords: absolute, also, applied, believe, both, concepts, democracy, domain, einstein, field, general, human, mr, natural, out, political, relative, relativity, rights, science, theory, which , worked We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
by Clara Zetkin (Politician, German , born in 1970) keywords: also, aspect, bourgeois, contains, economics, however, injustice, moral, more, motivated, movement, perform, profound, regard, rights, solely, spiritual, women , would They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.
by Ernst Zundel (Activist, German , born in 1939) keywords: accorded, against, approach, because, been, campaign, constitutional, credit, hate, intense, media, miracle, police, professional, rights, such, taken, their , vicious
