We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
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Related Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men,... LOUISE SLAUGHTER There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of p... EMMELINE PANKHURST I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and... JOSIAH WARREN Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: t... WENDELL PHILLIPS Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: th... WENDELL PHILLIPS The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interf... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interf... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don't... MILTON MUELLER Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manif... NOREENA HERTZ Consumers will lose even more in the long term if France, and other nations, continue to strip away ... JIM PRENDERGAST Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their... BIANCA JAGGER The governments weaponize toxins that the masses are routinely exposed to, and then denies the known... STEVEN MAGEE Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to g... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and whic... ALAN DERSHOWITZ Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give... CLIFF STEARNS The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. JULIE HARRIS Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a ... SUSAN B. ANTHONY Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti... GAIL COLLINS We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal respo... LOBSANG TENZIN The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th... THOMAS HOBBES The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization ... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and... SAMUEL ADAMS Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and... SAMUEL ADAMS The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertai... BENJAMIN TUCKER Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. FREDERIC BASTIAT Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a
right to life, secondly to liberty, t... SAMUEL ADAMS Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ... AYN RAND Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guarantee... WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milde... THOMAS JEFFERSON But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have th... FEDERICA MONTSENY Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'... AYN RAND The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY A person has the right to protect his home and property. CRYSTAL HOLMES All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ... AYN RAND The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productiv... GERALD W. SCULLY The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive ... GERALD W. SCULLY I think the citizens need to do whatever they can to pressure local governments into considering des... JAY MACANIFF Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing t... WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of pri... SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. CAROL BELLAMY I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit ... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch... JIM MCGOVERN The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is... JOHN RALSTON SAUL A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to... F.A. HAYEK The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also work... DAVE BRAT We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th... THOMAS JEFFERSON Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. LEO TOLSTOY She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have N... ELW-RETA BARNES But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governmen... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to ove... HENRY WARD BEECHER We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people... STEVEN MAGEE The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common p... STEVEN MAGEE Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governmen... STEPHEN KINZER We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individ... ROBERT D. KAPLAN We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American... MALCOLM WALLOP Texas was settled by people who were willing to fence in their property and protect it. We take seri... AL GREEN Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. BIANCA JAGGER I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that... CHARLOTTE BUNCH Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right ... MADELEINE M. KUNIN There is a word we should be using towards government officials whenever they deny our individual ri... MIKE KLEPPER My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of I... SHIRIN EBADI Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all ri... SUSAN B. ANTHONY If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FE... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military force... SAMANTHA POWER The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about... AMAL CLOONEY Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a ... PAULINE HANSON As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and divine... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women d... MADELEINE M. KUNIN Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ... DANIEL ESPINOSA Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own commun... ALEX STEFFEN - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Governments tell us they want to develop partnerships to help their citizens, local industries and c... GERRI ELLIOTT I am convinced that the way forward for the human race is to recognize and protect the fundamental r... GRAHAM HANCOCK The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of... AL FRANKEN Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from ... CHARLOTTE BUNCH All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. RICHARD STALLMAN We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differen... GEORGE W. BUSH
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KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ... B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o... B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc... B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A... B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go... B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha... B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&... B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b... B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you... B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa... B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's... B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me... B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B. 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KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th... B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are... B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ... B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all. B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug... B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo... B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta... B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g... B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g... B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music... B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil... B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big... B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,... B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille. B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com... B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun... B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p... B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c... B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,... B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha... B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o... B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ... B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P... 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KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com... B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h... B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the... B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the... B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say. B. B. KING If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ... B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends. B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways. B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King. B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue... B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people... B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords. B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li... B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ... B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done. B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember. B. B. KING I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa... SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th... SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ... SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m... SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th... SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder... SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c... 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