Negative Rights

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or rights:

    “The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short- cut answer.”
    —Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    “...I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise.”
    —Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)