Rule
of Law
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...what
the United States does, for good or for ill, continues
to be watched by the international community,
in particular by organizations concerned with
the advancement of the rule of law and respect
for human dignity.
-- Ruth Bader
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"There
is an increasing awareness of the need for some
form of global government."
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"I'm
not against the corporations. They are our wealth.
But they are getting too greedy. I don't want
to do away with corporations. I want them to
make our cars, however, not our laws."
-- Doris
Haddock (Granny D)
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We
should insist that governments receiving American
aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency,
and we should support countries that embrace market
reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.
-- Lee H. Hamilton
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"There
is no contradiction between effective law enforcement
and respect for civil and human rights."
-- Dorothy Height |
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I
am firmly convinced that in the world of today
all nations will be forced to the conclusion
that cooperation for law, justice, and peace
is the only alternative to a constant race in
armaments--including atomic armaments--and to
other disruptive practices that will bring the
nations participating in them on either side
to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal
suicide.
-- Cordell Hull
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And
it is to these rights -- the right of law and
order, the right of life, the right of liberty,
the right of a job, the right of a home in a
decent neighborhood, and the right to an education
-- it is to these rights that I pledge my life
and whatever capacity and ability I have.
-- Hubert Humphrey
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There
is so much each one of us can do to make a difference.
We are at a dangerous juncture in the history
of mankind. … We need to defend our principles
and values, human rights, civil liberties and
the rule of international law. If we don’t our
world will further descend into a state of chaos.
-- Bianca Jagger
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Bear
in mind this sacred principle, that though the
will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect, and to violate
would be oppression.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
"It
is strangely absurd to suppose that a million
of human beings, collected together, are not
under the same moral laws which bind each of
them separately."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
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I
hope we shall take warning from the example of England
and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations which dare already to challenge our Government
to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Conservation
is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the
land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion
to the rule of law."
-- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973)
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No
one is above the law, and no one is beneath
the law.
-- Van Jones
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Our
fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned
from their fathers. These laws were good. They
told us to treat all people as they treated
us; that we should never be the first to break
a bargain; that is was a disgrace to tell a
lie; that we should speak only the truth; that
it was a shame for one man to take another's
wife or his property without paying for it.
-- Chief
Joseph
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"If
the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian,
he can live in peace...Treat all men alike. Give them
all the same law. Give them all an even chance to
live and grow. All men were made by the same Great
Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is
the mother of all people, and all people should have
equal rights upon it...Let me be a free man, free
to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade...where
I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion
of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for
myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the
penalty."
-- Chief Joseph
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"We
must create world-wide law and law enforcement
as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons"
-- John
F. Kennedy
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Human
security comes only with human rights and the
rule of law. Human rights are the basis for
creating strong and accountable states without
which there can be no political stability or
social progress.
-- Irene
Khan
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One
who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells
him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the
penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the
conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect
for law.
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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