On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.
We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 911.
The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. . . But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.
Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.
We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
