... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ...civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was... established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights and deter...mining the power of the magistrate, were united by personal affection. Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, they stood in awe of each other, as religious men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submi...tted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The remnant of Indians thereabout--all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by th...e Red Men for their native soil and natural rights--had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though Veblen repeatedly criticized Marx's Hegelian metaphysics and dismissed as scientifically irrelevant not only his propaganda... but also his philosophical and speculative writings, he greatly admired Marx. He attributed hardly less hegemony than Marx had done to the way men get (and spend) a living; like Marx, he tended to regard politics, art, and religion as "superstructural" aspects of society. To be sure, where Marx is indignant, Veblen is ironic; where Marx speaks of the bourgeoisie, emphasizing their productive creative, but eventually exploitative role, Veblen speaks of the "kept classes," emphasizing their passivity and lack of contribution to industrial advance; and where Marx speaks of surplus value--a "natural rights" concept Veblen couldn't deride often enough--Veblen speaks of waste, a hardly less metaphysical category.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are libe...rty, property, security and resistance to oppression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman i...s her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural rol...e in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Terrorists often claim to be fighting wars, and to be doing no more than is necessary in war. This is nonsense. War is certainly t...he natural expression of collective resentment; but it occurs between organised groups and is fought openly, against a collective enemy. It is possible to fight a war with undiminished respect for the rights of the enemy individual. Indeed, that is the duty of every soldier. But the terrorist must disregard this duty and disobey the law of war. His feelings towards the individual are abolished by his loathing of the group, and it is this--rather than his cowardice, cruelty, or intemporate hate--that constitutes his true moral corruption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »