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...what
the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international
community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the
rule of law and respect for human dignity. -- Ruth
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is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government."
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"I'm not against the
corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want
to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws."
-- Doris Haddock
(Granny D)
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We
should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of
accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace
market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. -- Lee H. Hamilton
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"There
is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and
human rights." -- Dorothy
Height | |
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I am firmly convinced that
in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation
for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments--including
atomic armaments--and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations
participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal
suicide. -- Cordell Hull
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And it is to
these rights -- the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty,
the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right
to an education -- it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity
and ability I have.
-- Hubert Humphrey |
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There
is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture
in the history of mankind. … We need to defend our principles and values, human
rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don’t our world
will further descend into a state of chaos.
-- Bianca Jagger |
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Bear
in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all
cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority
possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would
be oppression. -- Thomas
Jefferson "It
is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together,
are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately." --
Thomas Jefferson |
I hope
we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy
of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to
trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas
Jefferson "Conservation
is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the
rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law." -- Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908–1973)
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No
one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law. -- Van
Jones |
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Our
fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws
were good. They told us to treat all people as they treated us; that we should
never be the first to break a bargain; that is was a disgrace to tell a lie; that
we should speak only the truth; that it was a shame for one man to take another's
wife or his property without paying for it. -- Chief
Joseph | |
"If
the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace...Treat
all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live
and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights
upon it...Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free
to trade...where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers,
free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit
to the penalty." -- Chief
Joseph
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"We
must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and
weapons" -- John
F. Kennedy |
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Human
security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the
basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no
political stability or social progress. -- Irene
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One
who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly
accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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