Rights Quotes by Noam Chomsky

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

— Noam Chomsky

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

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I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

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Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

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There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be…

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If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have…

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Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

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As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When…

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The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting…

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Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in…

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Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't…

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Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve…

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Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution,…

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[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under…

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During the 1990's, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US…

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Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative…

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There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not…

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[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.…

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What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and…

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The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually…

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There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

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Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

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Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white…

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One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

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Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where…

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In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core…

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The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

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The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their…

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In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more…

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Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined…

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards…

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For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution…

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A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should…

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Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more…

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In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights…

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Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can…

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They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A…

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Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged…

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