rights

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

Whether vampires should have been declared __live_ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death__efining what life is, and what it isn__, and how far we__l go to protect, or take, it.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

You have no right to be silenced.

I have to have a degree of not doing a degree"!

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!

It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online _ or in real life.