Quotes About Collective Rights

#1. Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

Ayn Rand

#2. Political solutions-accountable to the people and enforceable by their elected representatives- deserve another shot before we throw in the towel and settle for corporate codes, independent monitors and the privatisation of our collective rights as citizens.

Naomi Klein

#3. The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

Charles E. Wilson

#4. Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross ... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

Ayn Rand

#5. Poets only write the truth.

Shannon Lynette

#6. I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#7. After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled with spiders.

Erica Cameron

#8. Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.

Charles Kennedy

#9. The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

Garry Trudeau

#10. As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

Epictetus

#11. Everyone has the power to visualize.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. I needed the moment of backbone - at a time when I feel I am losing all the pieces that make me, me.

Alessandra Torre

#13. I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

Larry Niven

#14. Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

Frank Chalk

#15. America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

Michael Eric Dyson

#16. The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Gloria Steinem

#17. It's as if he's trodden in my footsteps, seen what I've seen, felt what I've felt, as I've criss-crossed the moors countless times.

Sanjida Kay

#18. In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining ... . We demand this fraud be stopped.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.

Jackie Huggins

#21. I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

Charles Kuralt

#22. Our collective freedom ... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Walter Mosley

#23. When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

Tony Benn

#24. I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

Trick Daddy

#25. Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Ayn Rand