Human Rights Abuses

Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or abuses:

    The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality, but to those of another.
    Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)