Negative Rights

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or rights:

    “In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    “Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)